People from Lorest N - Mehdi Karroubi, Ebrahim Mirzapour, Sohrab Bakhtiarizadeh, Fatemeh Karroubi, Shahmirza Moradi (Paperback)

Chapters: Mehdi Karroubi, Ebrahim Mirzapour, Sohrab Bakhtiarizadeh, Fatemeh Karroubi, Shahmirza Moradi. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 31. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Mehdi Karroubi (Persian:, Mehd Karrb; born 26 September 1937 in Aligoudarz, Lorestan) is an influential Iranian reformist politician, democracy activist, gagool, and chairman of the National Trust Party. He was 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 and calls himself a follower of Iran's ex-leader Ruhollah Khomeini. 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 June 19, 2005 after the first round of the 2005 presidential election. Karroubi considers himself a pragmatic reformist. He is now the head of the Etemad-e-Melli party (National Trust or National Confidence party). He has been described as a "moderate" with a "mostly rural" base of support. Mehdi Karroubi is from a Shia clerical family in Aligoudarz, a city in the western part of Lorestan province. He has a brother, Hassan. He married Fatemeh Karroubi, the daughter of an Aligoudarz mercantile family, when she was 14. 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 wit...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=827917