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Mohammad Khatami
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Hojjatoleslam Seyyed Mohammad
Khatami, the fifth
president of the Islamic Republic of Iran, was born in
Ardakan, in the central province of Yazd in 1943.
Son
of respected Ayatollah Ruhollah Khatami, President Khatami
finished his early school years in his homeland.
Then he
attended Qom Theology School in 1961. Later, he got his
BA in philosophy from Isfahan University, accomplishing
religious studies in senior level at Qom Seminary.
In 1970 he
entered the University of Tehran and graduated with an MA,
he returned to Qom later to his philosophical studies at Qom
Seminary.
President Khatami was involved in
political activities and anti-Shah
campaign.
He began his political activities at the Association of
Muslim Students of Isfahan University, worked closely with
Ayatollah Khomeini’s late son, Hojjatoleslam Ahmad Khomeini
and Martyr Mohammad Montazeri and organized religious and
political debates.
After the revolution in 1979 he
replaced Ayatollah Dr. Beheshti as
Head of Hamburg Islamic Center in Germany.
He represented Ardakan and Meibod
constituencies in the first term
of Majilis in 1980. He was also appointed head of Kayhan newspaper
institute by late Ayatollah Khomeini in 1981.
In 1982, he was appointed as the
minister of culture and Islamic guidance.
During the 1980-1988 war with Iraq, he served different responsibilities
including deputy and head of the Joint Command of the Armed Forces
and chairman of the War Propaganda Headquarters.
He was once again appointed as the
minister of culture and Islamic
guidance by President Hashemi Rafsanjani in 1989.
Khatami was
appointed as cultural advisor to President Rafsanjani. In 1996 he was
appointed as a member of High Council for Cultural Revolution by the
Leader of Iran. As President he is the head of the council.
President Khatami speaks English,
German and Arabic in addition to
Persian. He has written a number of books and articles in different fields:
To Whom Does Veleyat Belong?
(Article 1979)
Tradition, Modernism and Development
(Article 1996)
Fear of the Wave (Book)
From the World of the City to the
City of the World (Book)
Faith and Thought Trapped by
Depotism (Book under publication)
He got married in 1974 and has two
daughters and a son.
President Khatami was elected as the
fifth president of the Islamic Republic
of Iran in May 1997 elections by gaining 20,078,178 votes, almost 70 percent
of the votes cast.
