Khatami's father, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khatami, was a high-ranking cleric and the Khatib (the one who delivers the sermon for Friday prayers) in the city of Yazd in the early years of the Iranian Revolution. The couple have two daughters and one son: Laila (born 1975), Narges (born 1980), and Emad (born 1988). He married Zohreh Sadeghi, the daughter of a professor of religious law, and niece of Musa al-Sadr, in 1974 (at the age of 31). Khatami holds the title of Sayyid, which means that he claims direct patrilineal descent from the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Khatami was born on 14 October 1943, in the small town of Ardakan, in Yazd Province. Ruhollah Khatami (father) and Mohammad in childhood. The Iranian media are forbidden on the orders of Tehran's prosecutor from publishing pictures of Khatami, or quoting his words, on account of his support for the defeated reformist candidates in the disputed 2009 re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. On 8 February 2009, Khatami announced that he would run in the 2009 presidential election but withdrew on 16 March in favour of his long-time friend and adviser, former Prime Minister of Iran Mir-Hossein Mousavi.
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During his two terms as president, Khatami advocated freedom of expression, tolerance and civil society, constructive diplomatic relations with other states, including those in Asia and the European Union, and an economic policy that supported a free market and foreign investment. The United Nations later proclaimed the year 2001 as the United Nations' Year of Dialogue Among Civilizations, on Khatami's suggestion. Huntington's 1992 theory of a Clash of Civilizations. During his election campaign, Khatami proposed the idea of Dialogue Among Civilizations as a response to Samuel P. Khatami had run on a platform of liberalization and reform.
Little known internationally before becoming president, Khatami attracted attention during his first election to the presidency when he received almost 70% of the vote.
Later, he was critical of the government of subsequent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. He also served as Iran's Minister of Culture from 1982 to 1992. Seyyed Mohammad Khatami ( Persian: سید محمد خاتمی, pronounced ( listen) born 14 October 1943) is an Iranian politician who served as the fifth president of Iran from 3 August 1997 to 3 August 2005.