{{Short description|Iranian politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = Seyyed | name = Ali Khatami | honorific_suffix = | native_name = {{No bold|{{Script/Nastaliq|علی خاتمی}}}} | native_name_lang = fa | image = | caption = | birth_date = | birth_place = | office2 = Head of President's Office | term_start2 = 2 September 2001 | term_end2 = 3 August 2005 | president2 = Mohammad Khatami | predecessor2 = Mohammad-Ali Abtahi | successor2 = Gholam-Hossein Elham | party = Islamic Iran Participation Front<ref>{{Citation|last1=Buchta|first1=Wilfried|title= Who rules Iran?: the structure of power in the Islamic Republic|publisher=The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, The Konrad Adenauer Stiftung| place=Washington DC|year=2000|isbn=0-944029-39-6|page=180}}</ref> | alma_mater = New York University Tandon School of Engineering | parents = Ruhollah Khatami (father)<br/>Sakineh Ziaee (mother) | relatives = Mohammad Khatami (brother)<br/>Mohammad-Reza Khatami (brother)<br/>Mohammad Reza Tabesh (nephew) }} '''Ali Khatami''' is the younger brother of former Iranian president, Mohammad Khatami, and served as his chief of staff during his second term in office.
Khatami was born to Ruhollah Khatami, alongside older siblings Fatemeh Khatami and Mohammed Khatami and younger brother, Mohammad-Reza Khatami. He lived in Fort Lee, New Jersey while pursuing a master's degree in Industrial Engineering at Polytechnic University in Brooklyn.<ref name="Persian Mirrors">{{cite book| last = Sciolino| first = Elaine| title = Persian Mirrors: The Elusive Face of Iran| publisher = Simon & Schuster| year = 2001| pages = [https://archive.org/details/persianmirrors00elai/page/79 79–80]| isbn = 0-7432-1779-9| url-access = registration| url = https://archive.org/details/persianmirrors00elai/page/79}}</ref>
In 2000, during his brother's first term as President of Iran, rumors circulated in the Iranian press that Ali Khatami was involved in the distribution of "videotapes in which the officials of the system were insulted". These rumors were denied by the President's office, and described as an effort to exert pressure on the President by showing his family in a damaging light.<ref name="2000 videotapes"> {{Cite news| author = IRNA| author-link = Islamic Republic News Agency| title = Involvement of Khatami's brother in videotape case strongly denied| newspaper = IRNA| date = 1 July 2000| url = http://www.netnative.com/news/00/jul/1000.html}}</ref> In 2001, Mohammed Khatami named Ali as his chief of staff, after being elected to a second term as President.
== References == * [https://web.archive.org/web/20061212024415/http://www.nwc.navy.mil/press/Review/2006/winter/pdfs/art3-w06.pdf "The Iranian Nuclear Issue and Informal Networks", Naval War College Review]
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