Other notable figures include Human Rights Lawyer Shirin Ebadi who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003, pioneering architect Heydar Ghiai, prominent philosopher Hossein Nasr and reformist cleric Mehdi Karroubi.

Following the election, Iranian presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi said that several male and female protesters held behind bars have been savagely raped, according to a confidential letter to powerful cleric Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.

Then came Mehdi Karroubi ( 1989 – 1992 ), Ali Akbar Nategh-Nouri ( 1992 – 2000 ), Mehdi Karroubi ( 2000 – 2004 ), Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel ( 2004 – 2008 ) and Ali Larijani since 2008.

Abtahi is a member of the central council of Association of Combatant Clerics ( Majma ' e Rowhaniyoon-e Mobarez ), the political grouping to which both Khatami and the 2009 presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi ( the previous Speaker of Majlis of Iran ) belong.

Abtahi is often called the " blogging mullah " along with Mehdi Karroubi who is referred to as the iron " shaykh of reforms " Seyyed Abtahi is active in the blogosphere and is the first member of an Iranian cabinet to keep a personal blog.

* Mehdi Karroubi

* National Trust Party: secretary-general Mehdi Karroubi ( banned in 2009 )

# Majlis Speaker: Ali Akbar Nateq-Nouri, Hojatoleslam followed by Karroubi, Mehdi, Hojatoleslam

In the 27 Khordad presidential election ( June 17, 2005 ), Mostafa Moin and Mehdi Karroubi were the main candidates of the 2nd of Khordad movement.

The two leading reformist candidates in the 2009 presidential election were Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi.

* Mehdi Karroubi ( kidnapped, house arrest in an unknown location )

* Mehdi Karroubi

This was widely seen as an attempt to limit the participation of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Mehdi Karroubi.

File: Karubi_in_zanjan. jpg | Mehdi Karroubi

* Mehdi Karroubi, former Majlis Speaker, Secretary General of Association of Combatant Clerics ( MCS ), supported by MCS, Islamic Association of Engineers, Majma '- e Gorooh-haa-ye Khat-te Emam, and Democracy Party of Iran.

Mehdi Karroubi (, Mehdī Karrūbĩ ; born 26 September 1937 in Aligoudarz, Lorestan ) is an influential Iranian reformist politician, democracy activist, mojtahed, and chairman of the National Trust Party.

Mehdi Karroubi is from a Shia clerical family in Aligoudarz, a city in the western part of Lorestan province.

Mehdi Karroubi, an ethnic Lur, supports an approach where all people regardless of their gender, religion, or ethnicity can feel that they are part of Iranian government.

Mehdi Karroubi widely campaigned with his wife, Fatemeh Karroubi, during the campaign, which had previously been an unusual for a politician and his wife in Iran.

He is currently under house arrest along with his wife and Mehdi Karroubi.

* 1977 – Mehdi Mahdavikia, Iranian footballer

Arafat with Prime Minister of Iran | Iranian Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan, days after Iranian Revolution

* July 24 – Mehdi Mahdavikia, Iranian football player

* Mehdi Bazargan, former Iranian Prime Minister

Mehdi Bazargan: was a prominent Iranian scholar, academic, long-time pro-democracy activist and head of Iran's interim government, making him Iran's first prime minister after the Iranian Revolution of 1979. A well-respected religious intellectual, known for his honesty and expertise in the Islamic and secular sciences, he is credited with being one of the founders of the contemporary intellectual movement in Iran.

This was mainly achieved by hiring the services of Horton Investments, an Iranian consultancy firm owned by Mehdi Hashemi Rafsanjani, son of former Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani.

Mehdi Mahdavikia (, born 24 July 1977 in Tehran ) is an Iranian football player who currently plays for Persepolis in Iran Pro League.

Iranian prime minister Mehdi Bazargan was an advocate of democracy and civil rights.

There is no consensus about the outcome or what took place, with views ranging from an Egyptian victory, a draw, and an Egyptian defeat ( with the Egyptian accounts simply propaganda ), such as Iranian Egyptologist, Mehdi Yarahmadi.

He was killed after protesting about the treatment of his friend and colleague Mehdi Dibaj at the hands of the Iranian government.

Mohajerani participated in the funeral and burying of former revolutionary Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan, when few Iranian officials dared doing so because of Bazargan's very unpopular status among the higher ranks of the Islamic Republic government.

* Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas led by Mehdi Same and allied with the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran in the National Council of Resistance of Iran.

However, on that same year, Iranian radical Mehdi Hashemi was accused of smuggling explosives on an airplane headed for Saudi Arabia, renewing Saudi fears.

After the Iranian Revolution of 1979, Ayatollah Khomeini installed Mehdi Bazargan as the Prime Minister of an interim government, which served until November 1979.

Ebrahim Yazdi ( ابراهیم یزدی ; born 4 April 1931 ) is an Iranian politician and diplomat who served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs in the interim government of Mehdi Bazargan, until his resignation in November 1979, in protest at the Iran hostage crisis.

Mehdi Bazargan (; ; 1 September 1907 – 20 January 1995 ) was a prominent Iranian scholar, academic, long-time pro-democracy activist and head of Iran's interim government, making him Iran's first prime minister after the Iranian Revolution of 1979.

Other opposition groups included constitutionalist liberals – the democratic, reformist Islamic Freedom Movement of Iran, headed by Mehdi Bazargan, and the more secular National Front.

According to this letter, reformist candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi would have won the first round with about 19 million votes, followed by the other reformist candidate Mehdi Karrubi with about 13 million votes.

** Mehdi Ben Barka, a Moroccan politician, is kidnapped in Paris and never seen again.

* Mehdi Bazargan speech on democracy and election

This group included future prime ministers Mehdi Bazargan and Shapour Bakhtiar and its aim was to reestablish democracy by campaigning for free and fair elections.