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Mohammad Khatami Presidential Campaign, 2009
Mohammad Khatami, former President of Iran, announced his candidacy for the 2009 2009 Iranian presidential election, Iranian presidential election on 8 February 2009. Khatami later pulled out of the race. Campaign events *On 10 February 2009, BARAN foundation claimed anonymous group of Ahmadinejad supporters tried to attack and beat Khatami with stick during annual march of revolution victory. Mohammad Ali Abtahi, close adviser to Khatami confirmed that report. *On 12 February, Hossein Shariatmadari, editor-in-chief of hardliner newspaper ''Kayhan'', wrote a controversial article and threatened Khatami with assassination like former Pakistan popular Premiere Benazir Bhutto. *On 16 March, Khatami officially dropped out of the presidential race in order to endorse Mir-Hossein Mousavi, who he believed would stand a better chance for real reforms against the conservative establishment. *Maziar Bahari of ''Newsweek'' magazine reports an unnamed adviser to Khatami told him that Supreme L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2009 Iranian Presidential Election
Presidential elections were held in Iran on 12 June 2009, with incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad running against three challengers. The next morning the Islamic Republic News Agency, Iran's news agency, announced that with two-thirds of the votes counted, Ahmadinejad had won the election with 62% of the votes cast, and that Mir-Hossein Mousavi had received 34% of the votes cast. There were large irregularities in the results and people were surprised by them, which resulted in protests of millions of Iranians, across every Iranian city and around the world and the emergence of the opposition Iranian Green Movement. Many Iranian figures directly supported the protests and declared the votes were fraudulent. Among them, many film directors like Jafar Panahi (who was consequently banned from making movies for 20 years and condemned to six years imprisonment), Mohammad Rasoulof (also condemned to 6 years imprisonment), actors and actresses like Pegah Ahangarani (who was consequently im ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
