Shariatmadari's Editorial About Khatami Raises Protests by Guardians Council: Speculations Have no Legal Foundation

While former president Mohammad Khatami has not yet officially announced his decision about running in the June presidential race in Iran, ayatollah Khamenei's representative at the Kayhan group of newspapers, Hossein Shariatmadari, called the reformist president a "traitor" and "corrupt," and predicted that the Guardians Council would reject his qualifications to run in the race. -Hossein