Tehran - Iran's ex-president Mohammad Khatami on Sunday accused the administration of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of adopting a fascist approach, the labour news agency ILNA reported.

"Today some adopt a fascist and totalitarian approach and forcefully want to push people towards a path which they consider as prosperous," Khatami said in a meeting with academics in Tehran.

Khatami forms together with ex-premier Mir-Hossein Moussavi, former parliament speaker Mehdi Karroubi and ex-president Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani the opposition quartet against Ahmadinejad.

The four have accused the president and the government of fraud in the June 12 presidential election and therefore not yet acknowledged Ahmadinejad's re-election.

On Saturday, Moussavi accused Ahmadinejad of misusing Islam, saying that "Islam is frequently referred to but seldom followed." (dpa)