Ahmad Khatami

Ahmad Khatami

Ayatollah Sayyid Ahmad Khatami is a member of the Assembly of Experts. He has strong ties with the Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Mahmoud AhmadinejadFact|date=September 2007.

Although his name resembles that of Mohammad Khatami, the reformist former president of Iran, the two men are not related. In fact, they have opposite points of view on many issues, such as democracy in Iran.Fact|date=January 2008

In December 2005, he meet with the Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to be appointed as Tehran’s substitute Friday prayer leader. [ [http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=267401 Ahmad Khatami meets Leader] ] "The spirit of Iran's response is 'yes' to logical dialogue without precondition. No one can talk to Iran with the language of threats," Khatami said during his Friday sermon broadcast on Iran's state radio. [ [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060825/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iran_nuclear EU to query Iran on lukewarm response ] 25 August 2006]

After Friday prayer services on June 22, 2007 Hojatoleslam Ahmad Khatami spoke to worshipers by broadcast on state radio from Tehran about the Knighthood of Salman Rushdie.cite news|title=British Muslims burn St George's flag at anti-Rushdie rally|date= 2007-06-22|url=http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23401632-details/British%20Muslims%20burn%20St%20George's%20flag%20at%20anti-Rushdie%20rally/article.do] He addressed the death sentence issued by Imam Khomeini against Rushdie, saying "In the Islamic Iran that revolutionary "fatwa" of Imam [Khomeini] is still alive and cannot be changed."cite news|title=Iranian Cleric: Fatwa Against Rushdie is 'Still Alive' |date=Friday , 22 June 2007|url=http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=46317|publisher=Turkish Weekly]

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* [http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/1306.htm The Republicans in the U.S. Are in a Crisis; Sanctions on Iran Will Harm the West More than Iran]
* [http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=24015&sectionid=351020101 Iran warns France: US rope decaying]


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