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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 428

Mehdi Karroubi

Iranian opposition leaders, Mahdi Karroubi, right, and Mir Hossein Mousavi talk in Tehran, Iran, Oct. 10, 2009. (AP)
July 29, 2018, 12:59 pm
Iran approves release of protest leaders under house arrest for 7 years
Supreme leader Khamenei still has veto power on decision to set free Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, reformist candidates from 2011 presidential elections
By AFP
Iranian presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi casting his ballot at a polling station in Tehran, June 12, 2009. (ATTA KENARE / AFP/ File)
August 20, 2017, 8:38 pm
Iran reformist leader calls for politicians’ release
Khatami asks Khamenei to intervene to help two protest leaders, under house arrest for past six years
By AFP
Mehdi Karroubi lecturing in Zanjan University in Iran, 2009. (Wikipedia/Mardetanha/CC BY-SA 3.0)
August 18, 2017, 10:55 am
Iran opposition leader ends hunger strike after day
Ailing Mehdi Karroubi, 79, quits fast after regime agrees to remove intelligence agents from home, but demand to face trial remains unmet
By AFP
Mehdi Karroubi lecturing in Zanjan University in Iran, 2009. (Wikipedia/Mardetanha/CC BY-SA 3.0)
August 17, 2017, 11:43 am
Iran opposition leader hospitalized after going on hunger strike
Mehdi Karroubi, candidate in disputed 2009 election, protesting being held under house arrest for last six years
By AFP
Narges Mousavi, an Iranian artist and daughter of Mir Hossein Mousavi, stands during her exhibition in 'House of Free Designers' art gallery in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Aug. 11, 2017. (Ebrahim Noroozi/AP)
August 11, 2017, 11:54 pm
Iran opposition head’s daughter displays paintings
Artworks combine images symbolizing freedom with representations of bullets, gas masks and jail cell bars
By Amir Vahdat
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani smiles as he registers his candidacy for the May 19 presidential elections, in Tehran, Iran, on April 14, 2017. (AP/Vahid Salemi, File)
April 23, 2017, 5:32 pm
Iran to air live presidential debates after about-face
Government’s decision reverse earlier ban on such a broadcast due to fear of embarrassing certain candidates
By AFP
Mehdi Karroubi lecturing in Zanjan University in Iran, 2009. (Wikipedia/Mardetanha/CC BY-SA 3.0)
March 14, 2017, 5:38 pm
Iran sentences son of opposition head to 6 months in jail — reports
Hossein Karroubi charged with spreading ‘propaganda against the regime’ for publishing father’s plea for fair trial
By AFP
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (right) meets with Jason Greenblatt, the US president's assistant and special representative for international negotiations, at Abbas's office in the West Bank city of Ramallah, March 14, 2017. (AFP/Abbas Momani)
March 14, 2017, 1:54 pm
J Street calls on Trump administration to openly back two states
Abbas: Historic peace deal possible under Trump; poll: Most Palestinians skeptical of Trump peace efforts
By ToI Staff
Mehdi Karroubi lecturing in Zanjan University in Iran, 2009. (Wikipedia/Mardetanha/CC BY-SA 3.0)
April 10, 2016, 1:25 am
Iran regime critic wants to expose 2009 election fraud
Mehdi Karroubi, defeated by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2009 and under house arrest since 2011, demands to be put on trial
By AP
An Iranian woman walks past electoral posters of parliamentary election candidates on a sidewalk in downtown Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
February 26, 2016, 6:15 am
‘Death to England’ cries underline high stakes as Iran votes
Iranian conservatives leapt on a BBC Farsi report to claim outside intervention in Friday’s elections, as two camps with two very different visions for regime compete fiercely for public support
By Avi Issacharoff
Iran's former president Mohammad Khatami. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, file)
December 14, 2015, 2:53 am
Iranian editor faces trial for printing ex-president’s photo
Mahmoud Doaei accused of defying ban on coverage of Mohammad Khatami, who has been termed a ‘seditionist’ by leaders
By AP
Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi at a rally in Tehran, 2009 (photo credit: CC BY-Hamed Saber/Wikimedia Commons)
December 7, 2014, 11:54 pm
Iran students urge Rouhani to free opposition heads
Protesters call for ending house arrest of former presidential candidates turned regime critics
By AFP
Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi at a rally in Tehran, 2009 (photo credit: CC BY-Hamed Saber/Wikimedia Commons)
November 22, 2013, 4:41 pm
Iran cleric says opposition leaders deserve death
Ayatollah Jannati says reformists Mousavi and Karroubi, under house arrest since 2009, are alive because of ‘Islamic mercy’
By AP
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif at the United Nations, September 26,2013 (screen capture: Youtube/Youtube News)
October 16, 2013, 1:31 am
Iran’s foreign minister in pain at nuclear talks
Intense back pain forces Mohammad Javad Zarif to use a wheelchair during P5+1 confab in Geneva
By AP and ToI Staff
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif at the United Nations, September 26,2013 (screen capture: Youtube/Youtube News)
October 9, 2013, 8:13 pm
Iran’s FM says hard-line critics giving him back spasms
Mohammad Javad Zarif says he was misquoted by far-right newspaper over new recent outreach to the US
By ALI AKBAR DAREINI
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