Gholamhossein Karbaschi

Gholamhossein Karbaschi (Persian:غلامحسین کرباسچی‎‎) (born 23 August 1954) is an Iranian politician who was the mayor of Tehran from 1989 until 1998. He is considered politically reformist and is a close ally of former president Mohammad 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 Mohammad Khatami's reformist agenda. He is currently General Secretary of Executives of Construction Party.