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Mehdi Karroubi ((Luri/Persian:مهدی کروبی), ''Mehdī Karrūbĩ''; born 26 September 1937) is an influential Iranian reformist politician, democracy activist, mojtahed, and chairman of the National Trust Party.〔aawsat.com〕 He was 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.〔New Yorker, 13 April 2009〕 Karroubi considers himself a pragmatic reformist and now is one of the leaders of the opposition movement in Iran. ==Early life, education, and career== Mehdi Karroubi was born on 26 September 1937 into a Shia clerical family in Aligoudarz, 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.〔http://www.karroubi.ir/biography.html〕 In 1962, he became a lawyer in economy, dealing with the investments of prominent businessmen in Iran. Karroubi was imprisoned several times by the government of the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, during the 1970s, including a stint at the Qasr Prison in Tehran.〔 His wife, Fatemeh, later recalled that she took their second son, Taghi, to meet his father at Qasr Prison for the first time when he was six months old.〔 In 1978, Karroubi retired from law in order to commit to politics. In 1979, he joined the Iranian Revolution. Karroubi was the head of the Imam Khomeini Relief Committee and the Martyr's Foundation shortly after Iranian revolution.〔iranfocus.com, 14 June 2005〕 In 1988, Karroubi re-entered business after 10 years of emphasis on politics. With eighteen years of experience as a solicitor beforehand, Karroubi began trading and investing himself. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mehdi Karroubi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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