hunger strike in protest to his house arrest situation, calling for an open trial and demanding security agents to leave his house. The 79-year-old politician who underwent a heart surgery days earlier was taken to hospital after less than 24 hours and resumed eating after the government agreed to remove intelligence agents from his home. His demand for trial has not been granted. Personal life Karroubi has been married to Fatemeh Karroubi, the daughter of an Aligoudarz mercantile family, since she was 14. References Sources External links Official Personal Website |- |- |- 1937 births Living people 20th-century Iranian politicians Association of Combatant Clerics politicians Candidates for President of Iran Combatant Clergy Association politicians First Deputies of Islamic Consultative Assembly 20th-century Iranian businesspeople Iranian Green Movement Iranian Shia clerics Iranian democracy activists Members of the 1st Islamic Consultative Assembly Iranian prisoners and detainees Iranian revolutionaries Islamic Republican Party politicians Members of the 2nd Islamic Consultative Assembly Members of the 3rd Islamic Consultative Assembly Members of the 6th Islamic Consultative Assembly National Trust Party (Iran) politicians People from Lorestan Province People of the Iranian Revolution Second Deputies of Islamic Consultative Assembly Speakers of the Islamic Consultative Assembly Secretaries-General of political parties in Iran People who have been placed under house arrest in Iran Faculty of Theology and Islamic Studies of the University of Tehran alumni 21st-century Iranian politicians