Khatami’s term is coming to an end. Many are complaining that he did nothing and he was not up to the task. Or He was part of regime just to stretch regime’s life span and so on.
On the other hand, there are people who praise him for the jobs he did and think he was a hero for Iranians.
I, on the other hand, think that he was not a hero at all. Khatami’s, though, introduced couple of words into Iranian political lexicon.
1. Accountability and transparency of government hierarchy.
2. The small but decisive reform in ministry of intelligence.
3. Dialogue between different parts of society.
4. The word reform.
5. Tolerance towards each other.
6. Friendly representation of Iranians in world community. Raising hands towards world community.
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7. The art of criticizing and not getting labeled for it.
The other part of Khatami was compromise and concession to radical and conservative part of the regime. He lost many friends under way and did not tried to rescue them appropriately.
I am sure he was aware of enormity of the other side of spectrum where they do not have anything to lose. Therefore, they will do the act of atrocity with no mercy towards people. I think he was avoiding two things. The civil war and trying to pay the least amount of cost for his reforms.
I think to summarize his term we can say that Khatami’s term was a valuable term in Iran’s history where many democratic and ethical words entered to Iranians lexicon. And since he has been president such Reports are being released!
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