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Sayyid Ahmad Khatami is a senior Iranian Shia cleric, as well as a senior member of the Assembly of Experts. In December 2005, Ali Khamenei appointed him as Tehran’s substitute Friday prayer leader.He was born in the city of Semnan, Iran. 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." 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." In regard to the 2009 Iranian election protests, Khatami denounced demonstrators as rioters who wage war against God , , and more recently accused reformist presidential candidates Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi of Mohareb as "leaders of sedition." Wikipedia  

✵ 8. May 1960
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“Instead of negotiating with the Israeli regime, the Arab states should talk to the Palestinian nation so as to garner divine consent and national popularity.”

Ahmad Khatami

Iranian cleric slams Arabs for negotiating with Israel http://www.albawaba.com/en/countries/Iran/212319 27-04-2007.

“The US has always taken velvet revolution into consideration by promoting Western culture in the society and by causing strife between people and the government through propaganda, organizing certain individuals, psychological warfare and making intentional use of media, intellectual circles, university student's establishments and feminism movements in order to implement its interfering policies.”

Ahmad Khatami

Cleric says US seeks velvet revolution http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=16910&sectionid=351020101, Press TV, 20 Jul 2007.
Velvet Revolution

“The Palestinian cause is the cause of the entire Islamic world, and we cannot stay indifferent to it.”

Ahmad Khatami

Ahmad Khatami, Member of Iranian Assembly of Experts: Israel Is a "Dying Political Corpse" http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/1487.htm May 2007.

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