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**Mohammad Khatami** began his football career in his hometown of Rasht before joining Sarbaz and later the Taj club in Tehran. He played for both club teams and the Iranian national team.
In 1946, while playing for Sarbaz, Khatami won the Tehran Clubs Championship title, marking his first major honor in football. When the Sarbaz team was disbanded in 1949, Khatami transferred to Taj, where he played until the end of his football career in 1952. During this period, there were no formal Iranian leagues, but Khatami's team won the Tehran Clubs Cup in 1946.
Khatami won the Tehran Clubs Cup championship twice with Taj, in the 1949 and 1952 seasons. He was selected for Team Melli (the Iranian national team) in 1947 and made his debut against Turkey in a friendly match at Amjadieha Stadium on October 26, 1947. Khatami went on to play four games for Team Melli, scoring one goal.
Beyond football, Mohammad Khatami's fame extended into Military and commercial aviation. He became an air force pilot, flying the Phantom F4 before transitioning to transport aircraft. Khatami served as the private pilot for Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and married the Shah's half-sister, Fatima Pahlavi.
He was the commander of th B707 jet that took the Shah to Baghdad and then Roma after Shah fled Iran during Mossadegh's rose to power in 1952.
He rose to the rank of Iran's Air Force commander. Tragically, Khatami was killed in a glider accident in Dezful, Khuzestan, on September 12, 1975. The circumstances of his death are still the subject of various conspiracy theories and rumors to this day.
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