TEHRAN, March 9 (Xinhua) -- Iran's former reformist president Mohammad Khatami has been barred from leaving the country, the semi-official Fars news agency reported on Tuesday.
"Executive Secretary of Tehran's Vo'az (preachers) Community Hojjatoleslam Abbas Amirifar announced Tuesday that an Iranian intelligence official had told the community members in their session on Monday that Khatami has been barred from leaving the country," Fars said.
Amirifar quoted the unidentified intelligence official as saying that Khatami had recently intended to leave the country, the report said.
Khatami, who served as the president of Iran from 1997 to 2005, strongly supported the opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi in last June's presidential election in which the incumbent president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won victory.
