Zohreh Sadeghi ( fa, زهره صادقی; born 1950) is the wife of former Iranian

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Mohammad Khatami and a niece of the Lebanese leader of the Amal Movement

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Career

In 1999, together with wives of other government officials, Sadeghi founded the Behafarin Farda charity entity and serves as its president. Her most important political presence was in 2008 and during the Gaza War. Ten days before Azam Farahi wrote a letter to the

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, Sadeghi got in contact with

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to call on governments and nations to support the

Palestinian people Palestinians ( ar, الفلسطينيون, ; he, פָלַסְטִינִים, ) or Palestinian people ( ar, الشعب الفلسطيني, label=none, ), also referred to as Palestinian Arabs ( ar, الفلسطينيين العرب, label=non ...

. She has been vocal about her support of

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, citing discrimination against women as a serious obstacle to achieving hidden potentials.

Personal life

Sadeghi's mother was the sister of

. Her father Ali Akbar Sadeghi was a lecturer at

Shahid Beheshti University Shahid Behesti University ( fa, دانشگاه شهید بهشتی , Dāneshgāh-e Shahid Beheshti) (formerly known as the National University of Iran) is a public research university in Tehran, Iran. The university offers many programs at Bache ...

for 38 years and died in 2014.

Sadeq Tabatabaei Sadeq Tabatabaei ( fa, صادق طباطبایی; 25 March 1943 – 21 February 2015) was an Iranian writer, journalist, TV host, university professor at the University of Tehran and politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister from 1979 to 1980 ...

and Fatemeh Tabatabaei (wife of

Ahmad Khomeini Sayyid Ahmad Khomeini ( fa, سید احمد خمینی;‎ 14 March 1946 – 17 March 1995) was the younger son of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and father of Hassan Khomeini. He was the "right-hand" of his father before, during and after the Ir ...

) were Zohreh Sadeghi's maternal first cousins.زهره صادقی همسر سیدمحمد خاتمی
/ref> Sadeghi married Mohammad Khatami in 1974. The couple have two daughters and one son: Laila (born 1975), Narges (born 1980), and Emad (born 1988). All their children are reported to be living outside Iran.

References

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