MOHAMMAD KHATAMI TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT AGAIN

PanARMENIAN.Net
09.02.2009 13:31 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Iran’s former President Mohammad Khatami has
ended months of speculation by announcing that he will run in June’s
presidential election.

Khatami was President of Iran from 1997-2005 and was succeeded by
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a conservative.

"I will seriously take part as a candidate for the election," he told
a meeting of a pro-reform group.

Khatami, the most liberal President since the revolution, should
have a good chance of unseating incumbent Ahmadinejad, arguably the
most conservative leader in that time. However, he will face tough
opposition from hardliners in the clergy and military, BBC reports.