Gholamhossein Karbaschi
He was born 1954 is an politician who was the mayor of capital from 1989 until 1998. He is considered politically reformist and is a close ally of former president 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 Khatami’s reformist agenda.