The U.S. State Department’s Persian-language spokesman Alan Eyre has sent condolences via Facebook over the death of one of the sisters of opposition leader Mehdi Karrubi. In a message in Persian posted with a picture of Karrubi, Eyre writes that it was with “with deepest regret” that he found out about the death of […]
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Mehdi Karroubi Under House Arrest, in Mourning the Loss of His Sister
Mehdi Karroubi’s sister passed away early this morning on 28 Dey 1392 ( Jan 18, 2013).According to SahamNews, Ms. Fatemeh Karroubi, the wife of the late Hojjat al-Islam Maleki and the second child of Mujahid, Sheikh Ahmad Karroubi passed away today.Mehdi Karroubi came to know about his third sister death just a few hours […]
Detained opposition leader’s wife appeals to president
Fatemeh Karroubi has appealed to the Iranian president to clarify the legal basis for the incarceration of her husband, Mehdi Karroubi, a reformist candidate who challenged the authenticity of the vote count in the 2009 presidential election. In a letter addressed to Hassan Rohani on October 19, Fatemeh Karroubi writes that the troubles her […]