When I started visiting Iran, in 2004, Mehdi Karroubi was widely viewed as the most conservative figure among the reformists. He was a white-turbaned, populist clergyman from the agricultural ...

Hossein Karroubi confirmed that while the security personnel will remain at his father’s residence until April 9 for security reasons, they have informed Karroubi that they will leave the premises ...

A shoe is hurled towards Mehdi Karroubi (C) as he leaves Iran's press festival in Tehran October 23, 2009. Karroubi has been under house arrest since 2011. A shoe is hurled towards Mehdi Karroubi ...

Iranian opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi has decried his six-year house arrest without trial or charge as “unethical and unconstitutional”, according to his wife. The 80-year-old opposition leader, ...

Among them, none has been more outspoken than Mehdi Karroubi, a mid-rank cleric known as the Sheikh of Reform. His courage, honesty, and outspokenness have been exemplary. Although this has come ...

Mehdi Karroubi has always been outspoken. As a novice cleric in Iran's holy city of Qom he quickly became a disciple of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the charismatic preacher who became the father ...

In a melancholy yet defiant open letter, from one revolutionary to another, Mehdi Karroubi pleaded over the weekend to be put on trial in Iran. His dissent could no longer be silenced, he wrote in ...

See About archive blog posts. Iranian reformist politician Mehdi Karroubi said that rallies are to be held on the June 12 anniversary of the nation’s disputed presidential elections, which ...

"If he doesn't get in he'll speak from behind the gates." I tried to imagine presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi addressing a rally of reformist students from behind the green painted steel of ...

The unrest Tuesday evening, which saw thousands rally in the streets of Tehran, prompted authorities to issue a fresh denial of the arrests of Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, AFP reported.