Ata'ollah Mohajerani (عطاالله مهاجرانی) is an Iranian historian, politician, journalist, and author. A politician is an individual involved in politics. ... A journalist is a person who practices journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events, trends, issues and people. ... The word author has several meanings: The author of a book, story, article or the like, is the person who has written it (or is writing it). ...

Mohajerani was Mohammad Khatami's first Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance of Iran. He was criticized heavily by the Iranian Supreme Leader of the time, Ayatollah Khamenei, and eventually resigned. He later became the president of the Iranian "International Center for Dialogue among Civilizations", but resigned from the post possibly after ethical allegations. Order: 5th President of Iran First Vice President: Hassan Habibi (1997–2001), Mohammad Reza Aref (2001–2005) Term of office: August 3, 1997 – August 2, 2005 Preceded by: Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Succeeded by: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Date of birth: 1943 Place of birth: Ardakan, Iran Political party: Militant Clerics Society Hojjat... Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran. ... Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei (Persian: آیت‌الله سید علی خامنه‌ای) (born July 15, 1939) is the Iran. ...

Mohajerani has been a representative from Shiraz in the first round of the parliamentary elections after the Iranian Revolution, where he was among the very critical opponents of Abolhassan Banisadr. Later, he became the Parliamentary Deputy to the Prime Minister Mir-Hossein Mousavi, when he started to write the weekly column Naghd-e Haal in the Ettela'at newspaper, and then Vice President of Parliamentary Affairs under Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. Shirāz (شیراز in Persian) is a city in southwest Iran with 1,050,000 inhabitants (1996 census). ... Protestors take to the street in support of Ayatollah Khomeini. ... Abolhassan Banisadr (ابوالحسن بنی‌صدر in Persian) (born March 22, 1933) was the first elected President of Iran after the 1979 revolution. ... Mir-Hossein Mousavi (میرحسین موسوی) (born 1941?) was the Prime Minister of Iran from 1981 to 1988, at the time of Ali Khameneis presidency. ... President Rafsanjani Akbar Hashemi Bahramani (Persian: اکبر هاشمی بهرمانی), famously known as Hashemi Rafsanjani (هاشمی رفسنجانی) (born August 25, 1934) is one of the most influential Iranian politicians, and the Chairman of the Expediency Discernment Council of Iran. ...

He is a member and a founder of Executives of Construction Party, which is considered a backer of Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. The Executives of Construction Party (حزب کارگزاران سازندگی) is a political party in Iran, founded by several members of the cabinet of the then-President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. ... President Rafsanjani Akbar Hashemi Bahramani (Persian: اکبر هاشمی بهرمانی), famously known as Hashemi Rafsanjani (هاشمی رفسنجانی) (born August 25, 1934) is one of the most influential Iranian politicians, and the Chairman of the Expediency Discernment Council of Iran. ...

Mohajerani participated in the burying of Mehdi Bazargan, when few Iranian officials dared doing that because of Bazargan's very unpopular status among the higher ranks of the Islamic Republic government. Mehdi Bazargan (مهدی بازرگان In Persian) (September, 1907? - January 20, 1995) (also spelled Mahdi Bazargan) was head of Irans interim government, virtually Irans first prime minister after the Iranian Revolution of 1979. ... An Islamic republic is a state under a particular theocratic form of government advocated by some Muslim religious leaders in the Middle East and Africa. ...

He has authored a few books, most famous of which are a book in critique of Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses, a book in support of Ferdowsi (and against attacks by Ahmad Shamlou), and a book on Zaynab bint Ali's role in and after Aashurah. The mentioned books are considered by some critics to be actually official positions and opinions of the Islamic Republic government on the matters, not his personal ones. Salman Rushdie Salman Rushdie (born Ahmed Salman Rushdie, June 19, 1947, in Bombay, India) is an Indian-born British essayist and author of fiction, most of which is set on the Indian subcontinent. ... The Satanic Verses is also a novel by Salman Rushdie; see: The Satanic Verses (novel) The term Satanic Verses was coined by the historian Sir William Muir to refer to several verses alleged to have been part of an early version of the Quran and later expunged. ... Statue of Ferdowsi in Tehran Ferdowsi Mausoleum in Tus Ferdowsi Tousi (فردوسی طوسی in Persian) (more commonly transliterated Firdausi) (935–1020) is considered to be one of the greatest Persian poets to have ever lived. ... Ahmad shamlou Ahmad Shamlou (احمد شاملو in Persian; December 12, 1925 — July 24, 2000) was an Iranian poet, writer, and journalist. ... Daughter of Ali ibn abi Taleb. ... For the Canaanite and Ugaritic mother-goddess, please see Asherah. ...

He is married to Jamileh Kadivar, who is also a politician. A scandal has been going on in July and August, 2004, about a possible second and third marriage by Mohajerani, to Mahsa Youssefi and Ms Valizadeh. Some people consider this a scandal to make him lose his public face, in order to remove him from the list of candidates for the Iranian presidential election of 2005, while others consider it a good reason for not trusting Mohajerani anymore with a political office. It should be noted that under the current Iranian law, it is allowed for a Muslim man to marry up to four women, but the act is considered unethical and backward in the major Iranian belief, specially among the intellectuals. 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Iranian presidential election of 2005 will take place on June 17, 2005. ...

External links

• Mohajerani's Persian website

References

• The Mohajerani Problem, Ebrahim Nabavi's article on Mohajerani (in Persian)