Mehdi Karroubi in a meeting with a group of political activists: If the Interior Ministry of the reformist government had told me where we were hit in 2005, perhaps I would not have allowed the matter to reach Ahmadinejad's presidency

Mehdi Karroubi avoided the 2005 elections, saying: "Until the morning after the election, the reports of the Ministry of Interior indicated that Mr. Hashemi and I had qualified for the second round, but suddenly, for the first time in the history of the Islamic Republic, the spokesman of the Guardian Council read the votes and introduced Ahmadinejad for the second round. No matter how much I insisted that they give the details of the votes, they refused."

He claimed that it was later revealed that 800,000 votes had been cast in favor of Ahmadinejad in Isfahan, while less than 200,000 votes had been cast for the rest of the candidates, and he was taken to the second round anyway." It will be reached."