Ahmad Khatami
| Ahmad Khatami | |
|---|---|
| Tehran's Temporary Friday Prayer Imam | |
| Assumed office 18 December 2005 |
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| Appointed by | Ali Khamenei |
| Member of Assembly of Experts | |
| Assumed office 24 February 1999 |
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| Constituency | Kerman Province |
| Majority | 873,584 (55.96%; 3rd term)[1] |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1960 (age 63–64) Semnan, Iran[2] |
| Political party | Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom |
| Religion | Twelver Shia Islam |
Ahmad Khatami is a senior Iranian Ayatollah,[3] as well as a senior member of the Assembly of Experts.[4] In December 2005, Ali Khamenei appointed him as Tehran’s substitute Friday prayer leader.[5]
He was born in the city of Semnan, Iran.[6] He studied at seminaries in Qom and Semnan.
In 2006, during the Pope Benedict XVI Islam controversy, Khatami asked the Pope to "fall on his knees in front of a senior Muslim cleric and try to understand Islam."[7] In 2007, he addressed the death sentence issued by Imam Khomeini against Salman Rushdie, saying "In the Islamic Iran that revolutionary fatwa of Imam [Khomeini] is still alive and cannot be changed."[8] In regard to the 2009 Iranian election protests, Khatami denounced demonstrators as rioters who wage war against God ("mohareb"), (a capital crime in Islamic law),[9] and more recently accused reformist presidential candidates Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mahdi Karroubi of Mohareb as "leaders of sedition."[10]
References
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- ↑ "Pope tells Muslims he is 'deeply sorry' for crisis", Malaysia Star, September 17, 2006
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- ↑ Iran opposition leader ready to 'pay any price', by ALI AKBAR DAREINI, AP, 16 February 2011, accessed 4 March 2011
External links
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