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Prominent Opposition Leader in Iran Begins Hunger Strike
(New York Times) Thomas Erdbrink - Prominent Iranian opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi, 79, under house arrest since 2011, was hospitalized Thursday, a day after he began a hunger strike to demand a public trial. Karroubi, a cleric and former speaker of Iran's Parliament, ran for president in the disputed 2009 election. President Hassan Rouhani had vowed to release Karroubi and another former presidential candidate under house arrest, Mir Hossein Mousavi, though it is widely thought that Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, opposes their release.