Mehdi Karroubi

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Mehdi Karroubi in Zanjan (2009)

Mehdi Karroubi (مهدی کروبی Mehdi Karrubi ; * September 26, 1937 in Aligudarz in Lorestan ) is an Iranian politician and Shiite cleric with the religious title Hodschatoleslam val Muslim.

Life

Karroubi was President of the Iranian Parliament (Majlis-e Shora-ye Eslamii) from 1989 to 1996 and from 2000 to 2004 and a candidate in the Iranian presidential elections in 2005 . In the first ballot he received 17.24% of the vote.

After losing the presidential election, Karroubi founded the Etemad-e Melli (National Trust) party. According to Bahman Nirumand , the founding of the party served "to win more trust among the right-wing forces through severe criticism of the reformers" .

Karroubi is considered a moderate cleric who criticized Mahmoud Ahmadineschād's leadership style, but does not question the ruling system of the Islamic Republic. In an interview in February 2008 he said: "I am a member of the [Islamic] system, the child of the system and my fate is closely linked to the system." In a speech on March 9, 2008, Karroubi emphasized: "The cause of ours The problem is not whether we accept the suspension (of uranium enrichment) or not [...] Incendiary speeches and positions have caused many problems for Iran [...] we can insist on our rights without provocative speeches. "

With regard to foreign policy, Karroubi remarked in an interview with Tagesspiegel: “The Holocaust took place. There was the murder. Should we defend Adolf Hitler by denying the Holocaust? "

Mehdi Karroubi and Mir Hossein Mousavi belong to the so-called “green movement” in Iran. On February 14, 2011, both called for nationwide solidarity demonstrations with the Tunisian and Egyptian people. Since February 24, 2011, they and their wives ( Fatemeh Karroubi and Zahra Rahnaward ) have been under house arrest.

See also

Web links

Commons : Mehdi Karroubi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Iran Report 04/2008 of the Heinrich Böll Foundation ( Memento of December 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 92 kB)
  2. ↑ Interview with Mehdi Karroubi ( Memento from May 1, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) from February 13, 2008 (English), on ft.com
  3. ↑ Reuters of March 9, 2008
  4. ↑ Karroubi interview , Tagesspiegel , April 4, 2009.
  5. ^ "Politicians arrested" , Amnesty International Germany, February 28, 2011.
  6. ↑ Steinmeier's strategic mistake. In: hrw.org. March 30, 2005, Retrieved February 7, 2016 (Arabic).
personal data
SURNAME Karroubi, Mehdi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iranian politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Aligudarz, Lorestan