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unusual facts about Mohammad Khatami's reforms


Mohammad Khatami's reforms

American journalist Ted Koppel who visited Iran in 2006, emphasized on the difference between Iran and other totalitarian regimes.


Anjoman-e Eslami

Anjoman-e Eslami (Islamic Association, also Anjoman-e Eslami-ye Daneshjouyan Islamic Association of Students) is an Islamic student association in Iran that has backed Iranian reformers such as former President Mohammad Khatami and sponsored lectures by Abdol Karim Soroush and other prominent reformists.

Atatürk's Reforms

The leading legal reforms instituted included a secular constitution (laïcité) with the complete separation of government and religious affairs, the replacement of Islamic courts and Islamic canon law with a secular civil code based on the Swiss Civil Code, and a penal code based on that of Italy (1924–37).

Each millet had an internal system of governance based upon its religious law, such as Sharia, Catholic Canon law, or Jewish Halakha.

Fatemeh Motamed-Arya

Motamd Arya was a supporter of former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami and has been a supporter of 2009 Iranian presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi.

Habibollah Bitaraf

Habibolah Bitaraf was Energy Minister of Iran for 8 years during the Mohammad Khatami presidency.

Hashem Aghajari

According to Mashallah Shamsolvaezin, a "leading Iranian newspaper editor and confidant of Iranian President Mohammad Khatami" interviewed by Newsweek magazine, the arrest and stiff sentence were an attempt to distract attention from two bills to increase the power of president and curb the hard-liner conservatives' supervisory power which reformist President Khatami had introduced into Parliament.

Hossein Shariatmadari

For example, in 2009, during the first contested presidential elections, Shariatmadari was announced that Mohammad Khatami would risk the same fate of Benazir Bhutto if he was elected.

Isa Kalantari

Isa Kalantari (in Persian: عیسی کلانتری)(born 1952, Marand) served as minster of agriculture in both terms of Rafsanjanii's presidency and first term of president Mohammad Khatami.

Rasha al Ameer

After returning to Lebanon, in 1990 she co-founded Dar-al Jadeed, an independent Lebanese publishing house, which has published wotk by Mohammad Khatami and Mahmoud Darwish.

Rebecca MacKinnon

During her time with CNN, she interviewed notable leaders including Junichiro Koizumi, Dalai Lama, Pervez Musharraf, and Mohammad Khatami.

Rock and alternative music in Iran

During the late 1990s president Mohammad Khatami advocated a more open cultural atmosphere in his domestic policies, Iran came to witness a unique blossoming of an indigenous breed of Rock and Heavy metal musicians.

S A Hosseini

The demise of the 1990s Iranian reformist movement led by Mohammad Khatami, the former president of Iran (1997–2005) and the rise of a new conservative government were predicted by him.

Swiss Civil Code

The civil code of the Republic of Turkey is a slightly modified version of the Swiss code, adopted in 1926 during Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's presidency as part of the government's progressive reforms and secularization.

Yas-e No

Hassan Rouhani, the council's chair, and Mohammad Khatami, the then president, denied this assertion on 20 and 23 February, respectively, saying that the matter was not even discussed at the council's meeting.

Zahra Eshraghi

In 1983, Esraghi married Mohammad-Reza Khatami, former head of the Islamic Iran Participation Front, the main reformist party in Iran and younger brother of former president Mohammad Khatami.


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