Mohammad Khatami

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  "Beautiful Message": Iran Ex-President Backs Anti-Government Protest

  Many Iranian workers went on strike and students boycotted classes Wednesday, rights groups said, as a former president offered public support for the protests sparked by Mahsa Amini's death.

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  Iran's Mohammad Khatami Urges Voters To Re-Elect Hassan Rouhani As President

  Former president Mohammad Khatami, considered the spiritual leader of Iran's reformists, urged voters on Sunday to re-elect President Hassan Rouhani and support his policy of seeking to end Iran's isolation from the rest of the world.

• Iran Hardliners Want Nuclear Deal But No Ties With Washington

  Iran may be ready to reach a nuclear deal with world powers to revive its economy, but is in no rush to go further by restoring relations with the United States, calculating this would imperil its domestic support.

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  New video game allows players to confront Iran's 'symbols of sedition'

  The player must shoot the targets - the heads of two opposition leaders - Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi.

• Iran's President Hassan Rowhani talks tough on nuclear rights

  Iran's new President Hassan Rowhani said that Tehran will not give up "one iota" of its nuclear rights, echoing his hardline predecessor, after the UN atomic watchdog urged improved cooperation.

• Iran foreign minister to hold nuclear talks with world leaders

  Iranian President Hassan Rowhani has tasked the foreign ministry with handling the country's sensitive nuclear talks, his website said on Thursday, in a possible signal of a less confrontational approach with world powers.

• Iran appoints Marzieh Afkham as its first foreign ministry spokeswoman

  Iran's state TV is reporting the country has appointed its first ever foreign ministry spokeswoman.

• Iran to name its first ever female ambassador

  Iran plans to appoint a woman ambassador and a spokeswoman for the foreign ministry for the first time in the Islamic republic's history, Iranian media reports today.

• Iran President Hassan Rouhani pulls off cabinet balancing act

  By choosing ministers known more for their experience than their political views, President Hassan Rouhani has proposed a cabinet that achieves a rare feat in Iranian politics - it satisfies both reformist and conservative factions.

• Hassan Rowhani, Iran's new president, is a moderate pledged to engage with world

  Hassan Rowhani, the cleric who won Iran's presidential election on Saturday, is a moderate who has pledged to engage more with world powers in hopes of easing crippling economic sanctions.

• Iran votes out of duty, hope and obligation

  Iranians queued today to vote for a successor to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, many feeling a sense of national duty, others hoping for a better future and some because they thought they had to.

• Reformists hopeful as Iran votes for new president

  Iranians are voting today to choose a new president in an election the reformists hope their sole candidate will win in the face of divided conservative ranks, four years after the disputed re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

• Iran's reformist leader Mohammad Aref quits presidential race

  Mohammad Reza Aref, the sole reformist candidate in the June 14 presidential race, has withdrawn after receiving advice from reformist former president Mohammad Khatami, his website reported this morning.

• Iranian diplomat detained for three months without lawyer, say sources

  A senior Iranian diplomat linked to Iran's reformists, who has been detained at Tehran's notorious Evin Prison for three months, has been denied access to his attorney for the entire time, sources familiar with the case told Reuters on Monday.

• Iran reformers seek comeback in presidential vote

  Iranian reformists are making a tentative return to mainstream politics with two candidates in Friday's presidential election, despite the opposition being a shadow of the movement that briefly rocked the establishment in 2009.