Mr Fallahian is the only real hardliner among the nine other candidates competing with Mohammad Khatami.

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Mr Daneshjoo has said the turnout could exceed the 1997 election, in which reformist Mohammad Khatami was elected.

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Pakistan's military ruler General Parvez Musharraf is expected to hold talks with Iranian President Mohammad Khatami during a two-day official visit.

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Certainly not Mohammad Khatami, the twice-elected moderate president, or the reformist parliament.

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In August of that year, Albright's move was regarded by then-President Mohammad Khatami as "a missed opportunity" to normalize relations between the two countries.

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Ms Dastjerdi was the first woman minister of the Islamic republic, although a woman did serve as vice-president for the environment under Mohammad Khatami.

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Iran's President Mohammad Khatami has contacted the leaders of Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Syria to drum up support for his position that the U.N. should lead any worldwide fight against terrorism.

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He says within the Iranian Jewish community, there is a strong feeling that the case is being used by hardliners to undermine reformist President Mohammad Khatami's efforts to improve Iran's image and its relations with the outside world.

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Others include Behzad Nabavi, a Moussavi ally, and Mostafa Tajzadeh, who served under Iranian President Mohammad Khatami -- a Moussavi supporter -- the Iranian Labor News Agency (ILNA) reported Tuesday, citing Farhad Tajari, deputy chief of the parliament's judicial and legal commission.

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