A leading member of the Iranian opposition who has been under house arrest for almost six years announced on Tuesday he is quitting his party, AFP reported, citing Iranian media.
“Considering my situation since (2011) and given that I do not know how long this will last, I ask my friends to accept my resignation,” Mehdi Karroubi, 79, wrote in a letter to his party.
Karroubi and Mir Hossein Mousavi were reformist candidates during the 2009 presidential election, and questioned the shock victory of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad which led to mass protests.
A year later, in 2010, government forces firebombed the five-story Tehran home of Karroubi, and beat his bodyguard into unconsciousness.
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