Mehdi Karroubi
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.
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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 |
| 19th Speaker of the Parliament of Iran | |
| 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 Aligudarz, Lorestan Province, Imperial State of Iran |
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| Spouse | Fatemeh Karroubi (m. 1962) |
| Children | 4 |
| Alma mater | University of Tehran |
| Website | Official website |
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. Karroubi considers himself a pragmatic reformist and now is one of the leaders of the Iranian Green Movement.
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.