Mehdi Karroubi

Mehdi Karroubi
Mehdi Karroubi
مهدی کروبی
	Karroubi in 2005
Member of Expediency Discernment Council
	In office; 30 May 2004 – 19 June 2005
Appointed by	Ali Khamenei
Chairman	Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Preceded by	Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel
2nd Speaker of the Islamic Consultative Assembly
	In office; 28 May 2000 – 27 May 2004
Deputy	Behzad Nabavi; Mohammad-Reza Khatami
Preceded by	Ali Akbar Nategh Nouri
Succeeded by	Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel
	In office; 3 August 1989 – 3 May 1992
Deputy	Hossein Hashemian
Preceded by	Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Succeeded by	Ali Akbar Nategh-Nouri
First Deputy of the Parliament of Iran
	In office; 28 June 1988 – 3 August 1989
Preceded by	Mohammad Yazdi
Succeeded by	Hossein Hashemian
	In office; 15 June 1986 – 14 June 1987
Preceded by	Mohammad Yazdi
Succeeded by	Mohammad Yazdi
Member of Parliament of Iran
	In office; 28 May 2000 – 28 May 2004
Constituency	Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr
Majority	892,640 (30.45%)
	In office; 28 May 1984 – 28 May 1992
Constituency	Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr
Majority	965,484 (61.4%; 3rd term), 1,443,270 (62.5%; 2nd term)
	In office; 28 May 1980 – 28 May 1984
Succeeded by	Mohammad-Reza Hashemi
Constituency	Aligudarz County
Majority	49,097 (92.9%)
Personal details
Born	26 September 1937 (age 86); Aligudarz, Lorestan Province, Imperial State of Iran
Political party	The Green Path of Hope (2009–present); National Trust Party (2005–present); Association of Combatant Clerics (1988–2005); Islamic Republican Party (1979–1987); Combatant Clergy Association (1978–1988);
Spouse	Fatemeh Karroubi (m. 1962)
Children	4
Alma mater	University of Tehran
Website	Official website

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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 – reportedly ordered by the Supreme Leader of Iran – without officially being charged, although he is accused of being a "seditionist" and "traitor". As of 2021, he is still confined to his house.^[2]

He was the speaker of the parliament from 1989 to 1992 and 2000 to 2004, and a presidential candidate in the 2005 and 2009 presidential elections.

He has been described as a "moderate" with a "mostly rural" base of support.^[3] Karroubi considers himself a pragmatic reformist and now is one of the leaders of the Iranian Green Movement.^[4]

He is a founding member and former secretary-general of the Association of Combatant Clerics party. Karroubi is a critic of the Guardian Council and Iran's Judicial System. By appointment of the Supreme Leader, he was a member of the Expediency Discernment Council and an adviser, posts he held until resigning from all his posts on 15 June 2005 after the first round of the 2005 presidential election.

^ Eqbali, Aresu (29 May 2009). "Iranian women need more rights: candidate's wife". Agence France-Presse. Retrieved 25 June 2009.
^ Cite error: The named reference R was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ New Yorker, 13 April 2009
^ "Mousavi and Karoubi set stage for new showdown". Gulf Times. 27 April 2010. Retrieved 30 August 2010.

[afp-1] Eqbali, Aresu (29 May 2009). "Iranian women need more rights: candidate's wife". Agence France-Presse. Retrieved 25 June 2009.

[R-2] Cite error: The named reference R was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[3] New Yorker, 13 April 2009

[4] "Mousavi and Karoubi set stage for new showdown". Gulf Times. 27 April 2010. Retrieved 30 August 2010.

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