Mohammad Reza Khatami
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Ardakan
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, Iran
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) is an Iranian politician
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 and nephrologist.

He was the first Secretary-General of the Islamic Iran Participation Front
Islamic Iran Participation Front
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, 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
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, the grandson-in-law of the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
Ruhollah Khomeini
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 and the younger brother of the fifth Iranian president Mohammad Khatami
Mohammad Khatami
Sayyid Mohammad Khātamī is an Iranian scholar, philosopher, Shiite theologian and Reformist politician. He served as the fifth President of Iran from August 2, 1997 to August 3, 2005. He also served as Iran's Minister of Culture in both the 1980s and 1990s...

.

He was elected in March 2000 for the sixth term of the Islamic Republic
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's parliament's election as the first representative of Tehran
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 with 1,794,365 votes from the people of Tehran. Before that, he had been a vice minister in the Ministry of Health
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 for two years. He has also acted as the manager in charge of the now-banned reformist daily Mosharekat
Mosharekat
Mosharekat was a former pro-reform newspaper by the Islamic Iran Participation Front which was banned as part of banning of 13 reformist newspapers in Iran in April, 2000....

. Sometimes described as "ultraliberal" in his views, he has been "disqualified from running for any office by the Guardian Council
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".

Dr. Khatami is educated in medicine and before entering politics, he was a practicing nephrologist
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 (kidney
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 specialist) for a number of years. He is a faculty member of Tehran University of Medical sciences.

In 1983, he married Zahra Eshraghi
Zahra Eshraghi
Zahra Eshraghi is an Iranian feminist and human rights activist. She is the granddaughter of Ayatollah Khomeini, and wife of Mohammad Reza Khatami , former head of the Islamic Iran Participation Front, the main reformist party in Iran.Zahra Eshraghi wants the wearing of headscarves to no longer...

, granddaughter of Ruhollah Khomeini
Ruhollah Khomeini
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 (founder of the Islamic republic
Islamic republic
Islamic republic is the name given to several states in the Muslim world including the Islamic Republics of Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan, and Mauritania. Pakistan adopted the title under the constitution of 1956. Mauritania adopted it on 28 November 1958. Iran adopted it after the 1979 Iranian...

), and an activist in women's rights
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. They have two children — a daughter, Fatemeh, who at the moment studying at a university in London, and a son, Ali.

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