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| Khatami's brother re-elected to head Iran's largest party |
| 2002-07-20 |
| Iran's largest pro-reform party, the Islamic Iran Participation Front (IIPF), has re-elected President Mohammad Khatami's younger brother as its leader, press reports said Saturday. Mohammad-Reza Khatami was elected by the party's central council during the three-day party general assembly meeting in Tehran which ended Friday, the reformist Hambastegi paper reported. He gained 90 percent of the votes and will serve as the IIPF's secretary general for two years, it said. A total of 290 delegates attended the IIPF meeting which launched a "plan for action" for future elections in the remaining three years of President Khatami's second and last tenure. It's nice he could get a job in the family business... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |