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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.
May 6, 2024 · 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.
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Oct 6, 2021 · Mehdi Karroubi. 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.
Apr 13, 2016 · Mehdi Karroubi, who has twice served as speaker of Iran’s parliament, has been under house arrest for the past five years after challenging the validity of the 2009 Presidential election.
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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...
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Feb 14, 2021 · The Iranian authorities must immediately end the unlawful and arbitrary detention of former presidential candidates Mehdi Karroubi and Mir Hossein Mousavi, and Mir Hossein Mousavi’s wife, Zahra Rahnavard, and provide them with adequate reparation for the violation of their right to liberty and other harm suffered, Amnesty International said ...
Oct 19, 2009 · Karroubi, Secretary General and founder of the National Trust Party, has been a fixture in Iranian politics since the 1979 Revolution.
