Ruhollah Khatami

Ruhollah Khatami

:"(not to be mistaken with Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini who was the leader of the 1979 Iranian revolution)"

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khatami was a senior Iranian cleric in the city of Yazd. [cite web| name=NYT | title = Ruhollah Khatami, Religious Leader, 84 | source = The New York Times | url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE0DF143FF93AA15753C1A96E948260&sec=&pagewanted=print] .

In July 1982 he was appointed as prayer leader in the central Iranian city of Yazd by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. He is the father of a number of notable Iranian politicians, including former president Mohammad Khatami, Islamic Iran Participation Front founder Mohammad Reza Khatami, former presidential chief of staff Ali Khatami and Fatemeh Khatami, who was elected to Ardakan's city council in 1999.

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