Notes on Gholam Hossein Karbaschi
The
Servants of Construction Party was an important part of
President Khatami's 2nd of Khordad movement Khatami continued the practice
begun by Rafsanjani of having
Karbaschi at Cabinet meetings. In April of 1998
Conservatives were able to instigate corruption charges
which resulted in Karbaschi's arrest. In July 1998 he was
jailed after being sentenced to five years. Free on
appeal the sentence reduced to two years
in December 1998. Karbaschi serving the two years in may
of 98. On January 25, 2000 at the
behest of Former President Rafsanjani, Karbaschi was
pardoned by Ayatollah Khamenei . The provision that he
cannot run for office for 10 years is apparently still in
effect.
The Servants of Construction
(Khedmatgazaran-e Sazandegi) is now the Executives of
Construction or Kargozaran-e Sazandegi
Either Karbaschi was corrupt or he was
framed. It is popularly believed that Karbaschi was a
victim of a Conservative effort to derail the 2nd of
Khordad movement by eliminating key players.
"Karbaschi was educated at Tehran
University in the Faculty of Science, then continued his
Islamic Studies in Qom and was active during the 1979
Islamic Revolution. He is a former governor of the
Province of Esfahan and was appointed Mayor of Tehran in
1989. His reforms of the city of Tehran have been
internationally recognized, and his newspaper Hamshari
(Fellow Citizens) contributed enormously to the growth of
civil society in Iran and encouraged political
participation of women and youth in the 1997 election of
President Khatami. He is also the founder of the moderate
political party, Kargozaran Sazandegi." http://iran-leaders.blogspot.com/null
Some source articles
Tehran
mayor Karbaschi pardoned: BBC News
Mayor
Gholam Hossein Karbaschi of Tehran speaks in
Ottawa (6 Nov. 1998)
TIME:
Gholam-Hossein Karbaschi Sentenced
2nd
of Khordad movement begins to fracture
Oriental Rugs the O'Connell Notes
Copyright Barry O'Connell 2004 - 2008.
Last revised: January 31, 2008.
|
People in Southwest Asia
People in the
SW-Asia Model - A
People in the
SW-Asia Model - B
People in the
SW-Asia Model - C
People in the
SW-Asia Model - D
People in the
SW-Asia Model - E
People in the
SW-Asia Model - F
People in the
SW-Asia Model - G
People in the
SW-Asia Model - H
People in the
SW-Asia Model -I
People in the
SW-Asia Model - J
People in the
SW-Asia Model - K
People in the
SW-Asia Model - L
People in the
SW-Asia Model - M
People in the
SW-Asia Model - N
People in the
SW-Asia Model - O
People in the
SW-Asia Model - P
People in the
SW-Asia Model - R
People in the
SW-Asia Model - S
People in the
SW-Asia Model - T
People in the
SW-Asia Model - V
People in the
SW-Asia Model - Y
People in the
SW-Asia Model - Z
|
