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Reformists' spokesman Ali Akbar Mohtashami-Pur |
Ali Akbar Mohtashami-Pur is a respected cleric rooted in the religious establishment who became a close supporter of reformist President Mohammad Khatami.
During the February 2004 parliamentary election he emerged as spokesman of a new reformist Coalition for Iran, which fielded some 190 candidates despite the banning or withdrawal of many reformists.
Mr Mohtashami-Pur himself, though allowed to stand, decided to pull out in order, as he put it, "to sound the alarm".
But in a newspaper interview he urged fellow members of the Militant Clerics Society - to which President Khatami and parliament speaker Mehdi Karrubi also belong - to "stay and fight" the election and the reformist cause.
The Militant Clerics Society is part of the Coalition for Iran.
Mr Mohtashami-Pur served as interior minister under the Islamic Republic's founder, Ayatollah Khomeini.
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