Ahmad Khatami | |
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.jpeg) Khatami in 2019 | |
| Tehran's Temporary Friday Prayer Imam | |
| Assumed office 18 December 2005 | |
| Appointed by | Ali Khamenei |
| Member of the Assembly of Experts | |
| Assumed office 24 February 1999 | |
| Constituency | Kerman Province |
| Majority | 873,584 (55.96%; 3rd term)[1] |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1960-05-08)May 8, 1960 (age 64) Semnan,Imperial State of Iran[2] |
| Political party | Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom |
AyatollahAhmad Khatami (Persian:احمد خاتمی, born 8 May 1960) is a senior and prominentIranianMuslim cleric,[3] member ofGuardian Council and a senior member of theAssembly of Experts.[4] In December 2005,Ali Khamenei appointed him asTehran’s substituteFriday prayer leader.[5] He is also aconservative andprinciplist politician.
He was born inSemnan,Imperial State of Iran.[6] He studied at seminaries inQom andSemnan.
In 2006, during thePope Benedict XVI Islam controversy, Khatami asked thePope to "fall on his knees in front of a seniorMuslimcleric and try to understandIslam."[7] In 2007, he addressed thedeath sentence issued byImam Khomeini againstSalman Rushdie, saying "In the Islamic Iran thatrevolutionaryfatwa ofImam [Khomeini] is still alive and cannot be changed."[8] In regard to the2009 Iranian election protests, Khatami denounceddemonstrators asrioters who wage war againstGod ("mohareb"), (acapital crime inIslamic law),[9] and accused reformist presidential candidatesMir Hossein Mousavi andMehdi Karroubi of Mohareb as "leaders of sedition" in 2011.[10]
He is not related toMohammad Khatami and his family members.
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