Seyyed Mohammad Reza Khatami (Persian: محمد رضا خاتمی , (born 1959 in Ardakan, Iran) is an Iranian politician and nephrologist.
He was the first Secretary-General of the Islamic Iran Participation Front, the largest Iranian reformist party. He is now a member of the central council of the party. He is also the former deputy speaker of the Iranian parliament, the grandson-in-law of the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and the younger brother of th...
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Seyyed Mohammad Reza Khatami (Persian: محمد رضا خاتمی , (born 1959 in Ardakan, Iran) is an Iranian politician and nephrologist.
He was the first Secretary-General of the Islamic Iran Participation Front, the largest Iranian reformist party. He is now a member of the central council of the party. He is also the former deputy speaker of the Iranian parliament, the grandson-in-law of the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and the younger brother of the fifth Iranian president Mohammad Khatami.
He was elected in March 2000 for the sixth term of the Islamic Republic's parliament's election as the first representative of Tehran with 1,794,365 votes from the people of Tehran. Before that, he had been a vice minister in the Ministry of Health for two years. He has also acted as the manager in charge of the now-banned reformist daily Mosharekat. Sometimes described as "ultraliberal" in his views, he has been "disqualified from running for any office by the Guardian Council".
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