Tehran, Mar. 17 (ISNA) -Iranian former President and the chief of Iran's Freedom, Progress and Development Foundation, Seyyed Mohammad Khatami in the first gathering of this foundation gave a speech.

"The Iranian nation within the past 150 years has been a pioneer in finding a new life style according to its status," he said.

"Even the Islamic Revolution which occurred in this era, is different from the movements created in the Islamic world and this difference is sourced in the distinction of soul, capacity and identity of the Iranian nation," Khatami added.

"Regretfully movements in the Islamic World, even if they weren't so from the beginning, have become shallow and violent; the Islamic Revolution of Iran was never from this category, and the models it proposed were different from what is now offered under Islamic movements," he commented.

"The Islamic Revolution is a corrective movement and is more directed towards and dependent on revolutionizing knowledge, people's participation and their historical demands than violence and coup methods," khatami explained.

"Iran's resources are limited and we must apply global sources for progress. Continuance threats and crisis derives us from this path. All this is possible through global cooperation; cooperation is not kneeling in front of powers greed and so from the womb of this ideology rises the elimination of tension," he added.

"We believed and will believe that we must become powerful and influential. A poor and weak society can not defend its spiritual values and is forced to abandon many principles, dignities and values," Khatami said.