Mr. Khatami's reputation as a reformer comes primarily from his tour as Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance between 1982 and 1992, when he loosened the strict censorship of books, magazines and films.

A first degree art medal by the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance (2001)

In 2008, the Press Supervisory Board located in Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance of Iran revoked the magazine's license in charge of "breaching the Iranian constitution".

Ata'ollah Mohajerani served as Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance of Iran under reformist President Mohammad Khatami until 2000 when he was resigned from office for alleged permissiveness.

In my case, it seemed to have lost, to both the Atomic Energy Organization and the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance.

Ayatollah Khatami was the father of Mohammed Khatami, Iran's Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance.

"What's important for us is the date," said Shahidi Shaban, the deputy minister for press in the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance and a Khatami ally.

He started working in the Islamic Republic government as an employee of the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance in May 1982.

The official Iranian news agency reported only that the Mayor had been released, an account confirmed to reporters in Teheran by Ahmed Bourgani, the Deputy Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance.

Following the victory of the 1979 revolution, he was appointed as deputy for Cultural Affairs of the Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance in Mohammad-Ali Rajai's government.