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Mehdi Karroubi (Persian: مهدی کروبی, romanized: Mehdi Karrubi, born 26 September 1937) is an Iranian Shia cleric and reformist politician leading the National Trust Party. Following 2009–2010 Iranian election protests , Karroubi was put under house arrest in February 2011.
Oct 6, 2021 · In his first public speech after 10 years under house arrest, opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi urged major reforms to eliminate the “flaws and shortcomings” in the Islamic Republic.
Mehdi Karroubi (born September 26, 1937, Alīgūdarz, Iran) is an Iranian cleric and reformist politician who emerged as a leading critic of the Iranian government during his presidential candidacies in 2005 and 2009. The son of a mullah, Karroubi attended a Qurʾānic school in Najaf, Iraq.
Jun 15, 2020 · After more than nine years under extrajudicial house arrest, the health of Iran’s 82-year-old opposition leader, Mehdi Karroubi, is deteriorating dramatically, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned from Karroubi’s family members.
Dec 27, 2016 · Mehdi Karroubi, an Iranian cleric who ran for president in 2009 in an election that was followed by protests and a brutal crackdown, has resigned from his political party, according to the...
Apr 22, 2016 · Former presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi, who has been living under extrajudicial house arrest for over five years for contesting the result of Iran’s widely disputed 2009 presidential election, has written an open letter to President Hassan Rouhani calling on him to convince the “ruling dictatorship” to allow Karroubi to stand trial.
Oct 12, 2010 · He was a white-turbaned, populist clergyman from the agricultural province of Lorestan, and, though he was concerned about protecting Iranians’ political rights and freedoms, his...
Apr 13, 2016 · In a melancholy yet defiant open letter, from one revolutionary to another, Mehdi Karroubi pleaded over the weekend to be put on trial in Iran.
Dec 13, 2016 · Mehdi Karroubi, former presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, and Green Movement leader Zahra Rahnavard who is also Mousavi’s wife, have been forcibly detained under extrajudicial house arrest since 2011 for publicly disputing the results of Iran’s 2009 presidential election.
Among them, none has been more outspoken than Mehdi Karroubi, a mid-rank cleric known as the Sheikh of Reform. His courage, honesty, and outspokenness have been exemplary.
