President Mohammad Khatami said on Tuesday that Islam advocates freedom, progress and development. In a meeting with chancellors of universities and heads of centers of science and technology, President Khatami said that Islam advocated by late Imam Khomeini calls for recognizing national interests and international criteria and "saving ourselves from the crisis created by others." "It is not right to welcome crisis with wrong behavior. We are expected to secure our national interests by avoiding crisis," President Khatami said. "In the past eight years, we have worked hard to say that Islam is not against freedom, progress and development." "What...