- Mohammad-Reza Khatami
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Mohammad-Reza Khatami Deputy Speaker of Parliament In office
September 3, 2000 – September 3, 2004Preceded by Hassan Rowhani Succeeded by Mohammad-Reza Bahonar Secretary-General of Islamic Iran Participation Front In office
1997–2006Preceded by None Succeeded by Mohsen Mirdamadi Personal details Born Ardakan, Iran Political party Islamic Iran Participation Front Spouse(s) Zahra Eshraghi Alma mater Tehran University Religion Usuli Twelver Shia Islam 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".[1]
Dr. Khatami is educated in medicine and before entering politics, he was a practicing nephrologist (kidney specialist) for a number of years. He is a faculty member of Tehran University of Medical sciences.
In 1983, he married Zahra Eshraghi, granddaughter of Ruhollah Khomeini (founder of the Islamic republic), and an activist in women's rights. They have two children — a daughter, Fatemeh, who at the moment studying at a university in London, and a son, Ali.
References
- ^ Majd, Hooman, The Ayatollah Begs to Differ : The Paradox of Modern Iran, by Hooman Majd, Doubleday, 2008, 197
Party political offices Preceded by
NoneSecretary-General of Islamic Iran Participation Front
1997-2006Succeeded by
Mohsen MirdamadiPolitical offices Preceded by
Hassan RowhaniDeputy Speaker of Parliament of Iran
2000-2004Succeeded by
Mohammad-Reza BahonarPreceded by
UnknownVice-Minister of Health and Medical Education
1998-2000Succeeded by
UnknownSee also
Categories:- Iranian reformists
- Iranian Vice Ministers
- Iranian Majlis Representatives
- Iranian Majlis Deputy Speakers
- Iranian physicians
- Urologists
- Nephrologists
- Iranian democracy activists
- People from Ardakan
- 1959 births
- Living people
- Islamic Iran Participation Front politicians
- Iranian politician stubs
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