Mohammad Khatami said on Wednesday trial confessions by moderates accused of fomenting post-election unrest were invalid.
Several aides to former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami and top reformists were put on trial on Tuesday.
Iranian conservatives were on Saturday heading for a crushing victory in parliamentary elections over reformists who were sidelined by mass pre-vote disqualifications, partial results showed. Eighty-two seats in the 290 seat Parliament were at stake in the run-off voting on Saturday after the first round on March 14 left conservatives assured of taking a majority in the next Parliament.
Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday reaffirmed his doubts about the accepted version of the September 11 2001 attacks on the United States, describing the strikes as a ”suspect event”. ”Four or five years ago a suspect event took place in New York,” Ahmadinejad said in a speech to a public rally in the holy city of Qom.
For one spring evening in a blue-tiled mosque just south of Tehran, it sounds and feels as though the hour of the Iranian reformists has come again. The mosque is packed with men and boys chanting the name of Mohammad Khatami. They push and shove in the hope of catching a glimpse of the former president who tried to smooth some of the sharp edges of the Islamic republic.
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/ 27 November 2007
He denounces it as the ”Great Satan”, but the overtures of the Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to the United States seem to grow ever more extravagant. Having failed to win a response with a letter to President George Bush, Ahmadinejad has offered himself as an observer in next year’s presidential election.
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/ 13 November 2007
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran’s President, raised domestic tensions over the country’s nuclear policy to higher levels on Monday by labelling his opponents ”traitors” who are working for the West and threatened to expose them in a political witch-hunt.
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/ 26 October 2007
Iran’s former president Mohammad Khatami has fuelled speculation of a possible comeback by bluntly accusing his successor, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, of peddling false statistics to hide rising inflation and unemployment. Khatami said Iran’s economic woes did not tally with the rosy picture painted by the government.