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Seyyed Ruhollah Khatami ( Persian: سید روحالله خاتمی; 28 October 1906 – 27 October 1988) was a senior Iranian cleric in the city of Yazd. [1] In July 1982, he was appointed prayer leader in the central Iranian city of Yazd by Ruhollah Khomeini.
Oct 29, 1988 · Ayatollah Ruhollah Khatami, an Iranian religious leader who helped overthrow the Shah, died Thursday at Teheran Hospital. He was 84 years old. The official Iran press agency did not give the...
Mohammad Khatami in military service uniform, 1970. Khatami's father, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khatami, was a high-ranking cleric and the Khatib (the one who delivers the sermon for Friday prayers) in the city of Yazd in the early years of the Iranian Revolution.
On Dec. 12 Iranians woke up to bleak news: Their government had executed Ruhollah Zam, a 42-year-old journalist. The sentencing judge described Mr. Zam as a spy, as someone who incited violence...
Aug 16, 2022 · President Mohammad Khatami (1997-2005), a reformist, tried to mend ties with the West during his tenure. The Rushdie case was a key issue in talks with Britain that eventually restored diplomatic ties. “We should think of the Salman Rushdie issue as completely finished,” Khatami told journalists in 1998.
Apr 2, 2003 · April 2, 2003. When it comes to credentials in Iran's Islamic Republic, Zahra Eshraghi's are cast in gold. Her grandfather was Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the cleric who overthrew a king and led...
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Mohammad Khatami was president of Iran from 1997 to 2005. As a young man, he studied Islam under Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (1902–1989, who would become leader of the Islamic Revolution in Iran), and in the late 1970s joined the clerical party that supported Khomeini's ideas about Islamic government. From the early 1980s, Khatami cooperated ...
