When
I started visiting Iran, in 2004, Mehdi Karroubi was widely viewed as
the most conservative figure among the reformists. He was a
white-turbaned, populist clergyman from the agricultural province of
Lorestan, and, though he was concerned about protecting Iranians’
political rights and freedoms, his voters also tended to be pious,
traditional, and oppressed by Iran’s rising unemployment and inflation
rates.
I started visiting Iran, in 2004, Mehdi Karroubi was widely viewed as
the most conservative figure among the reformists. He was a
white-turbaned, populist clergyman from the agricultural province of
Lorestan, and, though he was concerned about protecting Iranians’
political rights and freedoms, his voters also tended to be pious,
traditional, and oppressed by Iran’s rising unemployment and inflation
rates.
