Ali Khatami is the younger brother of former
Iranian president,
Mohammad Khatami
Sayyid Mohammad Khatami ( fa, سید محمد خاتمی, ; born 14 October 1943) is an Iranian politician who served as the fifth president of Iran from 3 August 1997 to 3 August 2005. He also served as Iran's Minister of Culture from 1982 t ...
, and served as his chief of staff during his second term in office.
Khatami was born to
Ruhollah Khatami, alongside older siblings Fatemeh Khatami and Mohammed Khatami and younger brother,
Mohammad-Reza Khatami. He lived in
Fort Lee, New Jersey
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As of the 2020 U.S. census, the borough's population was 40,191. As of the 2010 U.S. census, ...
while pursuing a master's degree in
Industrial Engineering
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at
Polytechnic University in Brooklyn.
In 2000, during his brother's first term as President of
Iran
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, rumors circulated in the Iranian press that Ali Khatami was involved in the distribution of "videotapes in which the officials of the system were insulted". These rumors were denied by the President's office, and described as an effort to exert pressure on the President by showing his family in a damaging light.
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In 2001, Mohammed Khatami named Ali as his chief of staff, after being elected to a second term as President.
References
"The Iranian Nuclear Issue and Informal Networks", Naval War College Review
Notes
Iranian engineers
1953 births
Living people
Polytechnic Institute of New York University alumni
Islamic Iran Participation Front politicians
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