Former Reformist President Mohammad Khatami, who continues to remain one of the most popular political figures in Iran, has reportedly been put under more severe restrictions. According to Mohammad Anjam, Khatami’s lawyer, a judiciary official had informed the former president that he has been banned from public gatherings for a period of three months. The ban includes political, cultural and commercial gatherings.

Ever since Oct. 4, when Iranian parliamentarian Mohammad Reza Tabesh announced the new limitations on Khatami, there had been conflicting reports. A member of the Special Court of Clergy denied the new restrictions, saying, “There have been no new restrictions against him.” The official continued, “The preventative measures taken up to now have been up to the secretary of the Supreme National Security Council.”

According to the Kalameh website, the new restrictions on Khatami came from a letter signed by the prosecutor general of the Special Court of Clergy, Ebrahim Raisi, who was the conservative candidate for the 2017 presidential election and is currently also the custodian of Astan Quds Razavi, one of the wealthiest charitable foundations in the country. According to the Kalameh report, Khatami has been banned even from concerts and the theater and all nonfamily public gatherings.

Khatami, who was president from 1997 to 2005, had been under a media ban previously. While there had been conflicting news about the nature of his media ban, the reason for it was clear to everyone. During the 2009 presidential election, Khatami had continued to support presidential candidates Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, who claimed the election results had been tampered with. Iran’s conservatives called the 2009 post-election protests a “sedition” and referred to Mousavi, Karroubi and Khatami as “the leaders of the sedition.”