51.   Supported by moderate clerics and technocrats clustered around President Hashemi Rafsanjani.

52.   The appointment of a woman would mark a bold symbolic move by Khatami, a moderate cleric who won a landslide victory last month.

53.   The election in May of Khatami, a moderate cleric, had raised hopes that relations with the United States would improve.

54.   The moderate Muslim cleric was not expected to deliver significant reforms.

55.   The moderate cleric swept the presidential polls in an election unlike any other in Iran.

56.   The Special Court for the Clergy, which only tries clerics, sentenced a moderate cleric to one year in jail last month for forgery and fraud.

57.   The two moves are seen as a setback for press freedoms introduced since Khatami, a moderate cleric, took office in August.

58.   The United States said Monday that it is taking a wait-and-see approach to the election of moderate cleric Mohammad Khatami as president of Iran.

59.   Ties between the Tehran and Riyadh have been improving since Khatami, a moderate cleric, took office in August.

60.   University students in Tehran staged a rally Sunday demanding the release of a moderate cleric jailed for his reformist ideas, the Iranian news agency reported.