Mahdi Karroubi
| Mehdi Karroubi | |
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| Speaker of the Parliament of Iran | |
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In office 28 May 2000 – 28 May 2004 |
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| Deputy |
Behzad Nabavi Mohammad-Reza Khatami |
| Preceded by | Ali Akbar Nategh Nouri |
| Succeeded by | Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel |
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In office 3 August 1989 – 3 May 1992 |
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| Deputy | Hossein Hashemian |
| Preceded by | Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani |
| Succeeded by | Ali Akbar Nategh-Nouri |
| First Deputy of the Parliament of Iran | |
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In office 28 June 1988 – 3 August 1989 |
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| Preceded by | Mohammad Yazdi |
| Succeeded by | Hossein Hashemian |
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In office 15 June 1986 – 14 June 1987 |
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| Preceded by | Mohammad Yazdi |
| Succeeded by | Mohammad Yazdi |
| Member of Parliament of Iran | |
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In office 28 May 2000 – 28 May 2004 |
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| Constituency | Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr |
| Majority | 892,640 (30.45%) |
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In office 28 May 1984 – 28 May 1992 |
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| Constituency | Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr |
| Majority | 965,484 (61.4%; 3rd term), 1,443,270 (62.5%; 2nd term) |
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In office 28 May 1980 – 28 May 1984 |
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| Succeeded by | Mohammad-Reza Hashemi |
| Constituency | Aligoudarz |
| Majority | 49,097 (92.9%) |
| Personal details | |
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26 September 1937 Aligudarz, Lorestan Province, Iran |
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| 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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