FORMER IRANIAN PRESIDENT KHATAMI VISITS THE U.S.

Mohammed Khatami, former President of Iran, center, leaves the Bait ul Ilm Islamic Center in Streamwood, Illinois on September 2, 2006. Khatami, who was President of Iran from 1997 to 2005, the highest-ranking Iranian to travel to the U.S. outside New York since the 1979 Iranian revolution. (UPI Photo/Brian Kersey)