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Mohammad Khatami, former President of Iran, announced his candidacy for 2009 Iranian presidential election on 8 February 2009.〔(BBC NEWS| Middle East|Iran's Khatami to run for office )〕 Khatami later pulled out of the race. ==Campaign events== *On 10 February 2009, (BARAN foundation ) claimed anonymous group of Ahmadinejad supporters tried to attack and beat Khatami with stick during annual march of revolution victory. Mohammad Ali Abtahi, close adviser to Khatami confirmed that report. 〔(رادیو زمانه | خبر اول | ایران | حمله به محمد خاتمی در راهپیمایی ۲۲ بهمن )〕〔http://www.yaarinews.com/default.aspx/n/3667/10-????-????-???-??-???-?-?????-????-????-?????-??-?????-?-〕 *On 12 February, Hossein Shariatmadari, editor-in-chief of hardliner newspaper ''Kayhan'', wrote a controversial article and threatened Khatami with assassination like former Pakistan popular Premiere Benazir Bhutto. 〔http://www.kayhannews.ir/detail.aspx?cid=7387〕 *On 16 March, Khatami officially dropped out of the presidential race in order to endorse Mir-Hossein Mousavi, who he believed would stand a better chance for real reforms against the conservative establishment. 〔http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090316/wl_mideast_afp/iranvotekhatami_20090316215829〕 *Maziar Bahari of ''Newsweek'' magazine reports an unnamed adviser to Khatami told him that Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei "became quite upset" when he heard Khatami had decided to run for president, and "sent a personal message to Khatami asking him to step down." Khatami denied that the Supreme Leader made any such request.〔("Anyone but Ahmadinejad" ) by Maziar Bahari|''NEWSWEEK'' Published 23 May 2009〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mohammad Khatami presidential campaign, 2009」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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