Record of Khatami's first year as president: -260 public hangings -Hundreds of secretly executed political prisoners -Seven stoned to death in public -More than 170 forms of physical and psychological torture practiced systematically in jails across Iran -Ex-political prisoners re-arrested across the country -Mass demonstrations by thousands of anti-government protesters suppressed in bloody crackdowns in Tehran and several provinces -28 Iranian dissidents assassinated abroad -14 terrorist attacks such as car bombs and mortar attacks on Iranian Resistance -270 million dollars paid to mullahs' terrorist

Also in Khatami's first year, there were fifty three demonstrations and popular movements in one month;

August 1997: The bloody demonstration of tens of thousands of people in Nayriz
September 1997: The demonstration by 2,000 students in Mashad
November 1997: The demonstration by 2,500 students in Kazeroon
January 1998: Demonstration and clash between thousands of people in Anar
January 1998: Strike by 1,000 workers of Melli Shoe Company
February 1998: Strike by 1,400 workers of "Baftnaz" factory in Isfahan
January 1998: Demonstration by 3,000 students at Tehran university compound
May 1998: Demonstration by 10,000 people of south Tehran district in protest against the death of a young peddler, People clashed with the security forces
In May, 419 organized activities and protest movements were carried out by the Resistance