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Mahdi Karroubi

Mehdi Karroubi
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Speaker of the Parliament of Iran
In office
28 May 2000 – 28 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 Aligoudarz
Majority 49,097 (92.9%)
Personal details
Born (1937-09-26) 26 September 1937 (age 79)
Aligudarz, Lorestan Province, Iran
Political party
Other political
affiliations
The Green Path of Hope (2009–present)
Spouse(s) Fatemeh Karroubi (m. 1962)
Alma mater University of Tehran
Religion Islam
Website Official website

Mehdi Karroubi (Persian: مهدی کروبی‎‎ Mehdī Karrūbĩ, born 26 September 1937 ) is an Iranian Shia cleric and reformist politician leading National Trust Party. He is the chairman of the parliament from 1989 to 1992 and 2000 to 2004, and a presidential candidate in the 2005 and 2009 presidential elections.

He is a founding member and former chairman 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.

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 opposition movement in Iran.

Mehdi Karroubi is born on 26 September 1937 into a Shia clerical family in Aligudarz, a city in the western part of Lorestan province. He has a brother, Hassan.

Karroubi studied theology and Islamic studies at seminaries in Qom and Tehran. He studied under notable figures such as Hossein-Ali Montazeri and Ruhollah Khomeini. Karroubi was promoted to Mujtahid on the recommendation of the Grand Ayatollah Yousef Sanei and others. He also studied theology and law at Tehran University. In 1962, he became a lawyer in economy, dealing with the investments of prominent businessmen in Iran.


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