Mohammad Khatami is an Iranian politician and Shia cleric 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 to 1992.
Khatami in military service uniform, 1970
Khatami giving a speech at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in 2004
Khatami meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sa'dabad Complex, 24 April 2002
Khatami opening the World Wrestling Championships, 2002
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is an Iranian politician who served as the sixth president of Iran from 2005 to 2013. Ideologically a principlist and nationalist, he was a member of the Expediency Discernment Cou
Mohammad Khatami
…1997 to 3 August 2005. He also served as Iran's Minister of Culture from 1982 to 1992. Later, he was critical of the government of subsequent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Little-known internationally before becoming president, Khatami attracted attention during his first election to the presidency when he received almost…
Ahmadinejad at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in 2012
Ahmadinejad speaking at Columbia University, September 2007
Participants of the second Caspian Summit in October 2007. From left to right: President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliev, President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of Russia Vladimir Putin and Ahmadinejad.