Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami (Persian: احمد خاتمی, born 8 May 1960) is a senior and prominent Iranian Muslim cleric,[3] member of Guardian Council and 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 is also a conservative and principlist politician.
Ahmad Khatami | |
|---|---|
.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 | May 8, 1960 Semnan, Iran[2] |
| Political party | Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom |
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 accused reformist presidential candidates Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi of Mohareb as "leaders of sedition" in 2011.[10]
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