Gholamhossein Karbaschi

Gholamhossein Karbaschi
Mayor of Tehran
In office
January 1990 – April 1998
Appointed byAbdollah Nouri
Preceded byMorteza Tabatabaei (acting)
Succeeded byMorteza Alviri
Governor of Isfahan Province
In office
14 February 1983 – 7 January 1990
PresidentAli Khamenei
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Prime MinisterMir-Hossein Mousavi
Preceded byAbdollah Koupayi
Succeeded byMohammad-Reza Vaqefi
Personal details
Born (1954-08-23) 23 August 1954 (age 70)
Qom, Iran
Political partyExecutives of Construction Party
Military service
Branch/serviceGendarmerie[1]
Years of service1980–1983
CommandsIdeological–Political

Gholamhossein Karbaschi (Persian: غلامحسین کرباسچی, romanizedGholām-Hosein Karbāschī, Persian pronunciation: [ɣolɑːmhoˈsein kaɾbɑːsˈt͡ʃiː]; born 23 August 1954) is an Iranian politician and former Shia cleric[2] who was the Mayor of Tehran from 1990 until 1998. He is considered politically reformist and is a close ally of former president Mohammad Khatami. He was arrested, tried, convicted and imprisoned on corruption charges in what the New York Times claimed "was widely seen among moderates as a politically motivated attack" by the government's conservatives and hard-liners to thwart President Mohammad Khatami's reformist agenda.[3] He was the General Secretary of Executives of Construction Party until 2021.

  1. ^ "Tehran's Jailed Mayor A Former Cleric Turned Maverick Politician", Utusan, 7 May 1999, retrieved 1 August 2017
  2. ^ "Iran's Political Elite". 11 October 2010.
  3. ^ Iran's Ex-President Backs a Jailed Aide The New York Times, 9 May 1999.