Mohammad-Reza Khatami

Mohammad-Reza Khatami
Deputy Speaker of Parliament
In office September 3, 2000 – September 3, 2004
Preceded by	Hassan Rowhani
Succeeded by	Mohammad-Reza Bahonar
Secretary-General of Islamic Iran Participation Front
In office 1997–2006
Preceded 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

1. ^ Majd, Hooman, The Ayatollah Begs to Differ : The Paradox of Modern Iran, by Hooman Majd, Doubleday, 2008, 197

Party political offices
Preceded by None	Secretary-General of Islamic Iran Participation Front 1997-2006	Succeeded by Mohsen Mirdamadi
Political offices
Preceded by Hassan Rowhani	Deputy Speaker of Parliament of Iran 2000-2004	Succeeded by Mohammad-Reza Bahonar
Preceded by Unknown	Vice-Minister of Health and Medical Education 1998-2000	Succeeded by Unknown

See also

• BBC. Profile: Mohammad Reza Khatami

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Name	Khatami, Mohammad-Reza
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Date of birth	1959
Place of birth	Ardakan, Iran
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