Ahmad Khatami Explained

Ahmad Khatami
Term Start1:18 December 2005
Appointer1:Ali Khamenei
Term Start2:24 February 1999
Majority2:873,584 (55.96%; 3rd term)[1]
Constituency2:Kerman Province
Birth Date:8 May 1960
Birth Place:Semnan, Iran[2]
Party:Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom

Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami (Persian: احمد خاتمی, born 8 May 1960) is a senior and prominent Iranian Muslim cleric,[3] member of Guardian Council and a senior member of the Assembly of Experts.[4] In December 2005, Ali Khamenei appointed him as Tehran’s substitute Friday prayer leader.[5] He is also a conservative and principlist politician.

He was born in the city of Semnan, Iran.[6] He studied at seminaries in Qom and Semnan.

In 2006, during the Pope Benedict XVI Islam controversy, Khatami asked the Pope to "fall on his knees in front of a senior Muslim cleric and try to understand Islam."[7] In 2007, he addressed the death sentence issued by Imam Khomeini against Salman Rushdie, saying "In the Islamic Iran that revolutionary fatwa of Imam [Khomeini] is still alive and cannot be changed."[8] In regard to the 2009 Iranian election protests, Khatami denounced demonstrators as rioters who wage war against God ("mohareb"), (a capital crime in Islamic law),[9] and accused reformist presidential candidates Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi of Mohareb as "leaders of sedition" in 2011.[10]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Assembly of Experts members. Assembly of Experts. 28 October 2014. Persian. https://web.archive.org/web/20141020015413/http://www.khobreganrahbari.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=250. 2014-10-20. dead.
  2. http://www.parsine.com/fa/news/61005/%D8%B2%D9%86%D8%AF%DA%AF%DB%8C%E2%80%8C%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%87-%D8%AE%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%86%D9%88%D8%B4%D8%AA-%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%AF-%D8%A7%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF-%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%85%DB%8C Biography of Seyyed Ahmad Khatami -- self-writing
  3. Web site: Iran cleric: Mideast unrest replay of our 1979 Islamic revolution . . 2011-01-28 . 2011-02-16.
  4. Web site: Senior Iranian Cleric Calls For Setting Up Of New UN . RTT News . 2010-06-11 . 2011-02-16 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110715211651/http://www.rttnews.com/Content/GeneralNews.aspx?Id=1331803&SM=1 . 2011-07-15 .
  5. Web site: Ahmad Khatami meets Leader . . 2005-12-18 . 2011-02-16 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110714070354/http://www.mehrnews.com/en/newsdetail.aspx?NewsID=267401 . 2011-07-14 .
  6. http://www.parsine.com/fa/news/61005/%D8%B2%D9%86%D8%AF%DA%AF%DB%8C%E2%80%8C%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%87-%D8%AE%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%86%D9%88%D8%B4%D8%AA-%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%AF-%D8%A7%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF-%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%85%DB%8C Biography of Seyyed Ahmad Khatami -- self-writing
  7. https://web.archive.org/web/20090619220503/http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=%2F2006%2F9%2F17%2Fworldupdates%2F2006-09-17T173738Z_01_NOOTR_RTRJONC_0_-267877-10&sec=Worldupdates "Pope tells Muslims he is 'deeply sorry' for crisis"
  8. Web site: British Muslims . . 2007-06-22 . 2011-02-18 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090620013148/http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23401632-details/British%20Muslims%20burn%20St%20George%27s%20flag%20at%20anti-Rushdie%20rally/article.do . 2009-06-20 .
  9. Web site: Iranian Cleric: Protesters at War With God . . 2009-07-01 . 2011-02-18 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090718092354/http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-06-26-voa14.cfm . 2009-07-18 .
  10. https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110216/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_opposition Iran opposition leader ready to 'pay any price'

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