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Iran’s Khatami urged to launch ‘reforms within reform movement'

Amid signs of a decline in public support for Iran’s Reform movement, 100 activists have urged Reformist icon Mohammad Khatami to save the camp by initiating internal reforms.

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Former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami waits to make a keynote speech to an audience at a university in Melbourne, Australia, March 26, 2009. — REUTERS/Mick Tsikas

An open letter addressed to two-time president (1997-2005) and Reformist icon Mohammad Khatami, urging him to salvage the political movement that he pioneered in 1997, has been signed by 100 Iranian activists.

Meant as a wake-up call for the popular leader of the broadest post-revolutionary movement for social freedoms in Iran, the letter urges Khatami to initiate what has been described as “reforms within the Reform movement” in order to get a derailed train back on track.

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