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Shirin Ebadi is an Iranian Nobel laureate,lawyer,writer,teacher and a former judge and founder of the Defenders of Human Rights Center in Iran. In 2003,Ebadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her pioneering efforts for democracy and women's,children's,and refugee rights. She was the first Muslim woman and the first Iranian to receive the award.
Seyed Mohammad-Ali Abtahi is an Iranian theologian,scholar,pro-democracy activist and chairman of the Institute for Interreligious Dialogue. During the 1980s,he worked as the head of IRIB broadcasting in Mashhad,Bushehr,and Shiraz,and between 2001 and 2004 he worked as the vice-president for legal affairs in Majlis and was the advisor to the president between 2004 and 2005.
The Reformists are a political faction in Iran. Iran's "reform era" is sometimes said to have lasted from 1997 to 2005—the length of President Mohammad Khatami's two terms in office. The Council for Coordinating the Reforms Front is the main umbrella organization and coalition within the movement;however,there are reformist groups not aligned with the council,such as the Reformists Front.
Khatami is an Iranian surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Abdollah Noori is an Iranian cleric and reformist politician. Despite his "long history of service to the Islamic Republic," he became the most senior Islamic politician to be sentenced to prison since the Iranian Revolution,when he was sentenced to five years in prison for political and religious dissent in 1999. He has been called the "bête noire" of Islamic conservatives in Iran.
Special Clerical Court,or Special Court for Clerics is a special Iranian judicial system for prosecuting crimes,both ordinary and political,committed by Islamic clerics and scholars. The Special Clerical Court can defrock and disbar Islamic jurists,give sentences of imprisonment,corporal punishment,execution,etc. The court functions independently of the regular Iranian judicial framework,with its own security and prison systems,"generally secret and confidential" cases,proceedings and procedures,and is accountable only to the Supreme Leader of Iran,. The most senior Islamic politician to be prosecuted and sentenced to prison since the Iranian Revolution was Abdollah Nouri who was sentenced to five years in prison for political and religious dissent by the court in 1999.
Mir-Hossein Mousavi Khameneh is an Iranian reformist politician,artist and architect who served as the 49th and last Prime Minister of Iran from 1981 to 1989. He was a reformist candidate for the 2009 presidential election and eventually the leader of the opposition in the post-election unrest. Mousavi served as the president of the Iranian Academy of Arts until 2009,when conservative authorities removed him. Although Mousavi had always considered himself a reformist and believed in promoting change within the 1979 Revolution constitution,on 3 Feb 2023,in response to the violent suppression of Iranians by Ali Khamenei,the Supreme Leader of Iran,he announced opposition to the Islamic Republic constitution and asked for a widespread referendum to fully change the constitution and make a fundamental change in Iran's political system.
Arash Miresmaeili is an Iranian judoka. He now serves as the President of the Iranian Judo Federation.
Mohammad Reza Aref is an Iranian engineer,academic and reformist politician who was the parliamentary leader of reformists' Hope fraction in the Iranian Parliament,representing Tehran,Rey,Shemiranat and Eslamshahr. Aref has also been heading the Reformists' Supreme Council for Policymaking since its establishment in 2015. He is currently member of the Expediency Discernment Council.
The Association of Combatant Clerics is an Iranian reformist clerical political party. It is regarded as a left-wing party within the Iranian political spectrum.
Presidential elections were held in Iran on 8 June 2001,and resulted in Mohammad Khatami being elected as the President of Iran for his second term.
Presidential elections were held in Iran on 23 May 1997,which resulted in an unpredicted win for the reformist candidate Mohammad Khatami. The election was notable not only for the lopsided majority of the winner - 70% - but for the high turnout. 80% of those eligible to vote did so,compared to 50% in the previous presidential election.
On May 8,2006,Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sent a missive directly to then United States President George W. Bush that proposed "new ways" to end the dispute over the Islamic Republic's development of nuclear power.
Ayatollah Mohammad-Ali Movahedi Kermani is Tehran's Friday Prayer Ephemeral Imam and the former secretary-general of Combatant Clergy Association. He is also a member of the Assembly of Experts. He is a conservative and principlist politician.
Mir-Hossein Mousavi Khameneh served as the last Prime Minister of Iran,from 1981 to 1989,before the position was abolished in the 1989 review of the Iranian constitution. In the years leading up to the Islamic Revolution,Mousavi and his wife,Zahra Rahnavard,moved to the United States;they returned to Iran shortly after the establishment of the Islamic Republic.
Iranian president Mohammad Khatami's two terms as president were criticized by conservatives,reformers,and opposition groups for various policies and viewpoints.
Muhammad Khatami's tenure as the fifth president of Iran began with his inauguration on 3 August 1997 to 3 August 2005.
Hassan Rouhani is an Iranian Islamist politician who served as the seventh president of Iran from 2013 to 2021. He is also a sharia lawyer ("Wakil"),academic,former diplomat and Islamic cleric. He has been a member of Iran's Assembly of Experts since 1999. He was a member of the Expediency Council from 1991 to 2021,and also was a member of the Supreme National Security Council from 1989 to 2021. Rouhani was deputy speaker of the fourth and fifth terms of the Parliament of Iran (Majlis) and Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council from 1989 to 2005. In the latter capacity,he was the country's top negotiator with the EU three,UK,France,and Germany,on nuclear technology in Iran,and has also served as a Shia mujtahid,and economic trade negotiator.
Presidential Administration of Iran consists of the immediate staff of the current President of Iran and multiple levels of support staff reporting to the President. It is located in Pasteur Street.
