Azerbaijan, Baku, Nov.20 / Trend T. Jafarov /
Iran's Reformist Camp's representative, former president Mohammad Khatami gave instructions on conducting works on the forthcoming parliamentary elections, the website of the Iranian newspaper "Javan-online" reports.
"I hope that in the next five-six months essential changes will be in the country's political atmosphere in favor of reformists," Khatami said.
He also spoke about the importance of strengthening the reformists' activities for their participation in the 9th convocation's parliamentary elections.
According to Khatami, a favorable opportunity will be in the upcoming parliamentary elections for the reformists, and they should fully use their potential to participate in these elections.
Khatami was Iran's president from 1997 to 2005.
Iran holds parliamentary elections (the Islamic Consultative Assembly of Iran - Majlis) every four years. In Iran, parliamentary elections of the 8th convocation were held March 14, 2008. There are currently 290 MPs in the Majlis. The Majlis Chairman is Ali Larijani.
Reformists and conservatives are major competing camps in Iran.
According to official results of presidential elections held on June 12 last year, the current Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gained 62.63 percent of votes. His main rival Mir-Hossein Mousavi gained 33.75 percent of the votes.
Mousavi's supporters accuse authorities of rigging the election results, require the abolition of these results. Mass protests led to clashes with police. As a result, several activists were killed and 1,032 people were arrested. Later, some of them were freed.