Sunday 9 August 2009

Top Iran Official Says Mousavi, Karroubi Must Be Tried


Top Iran Official Says Mousavi, Karroubi Must Be Tried
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09/08/2009 Yadollah Javani, the head of the elite Revolutionary Guard's political bureau,
said a plot to topple the Islamic regime through a "velvet coup" has
been exposed.

"The question is who were the main planners and agents of this coup. What is the role of Khatami, Mousavi and Karroubi in this coup?" he said, referring to former president Mohammad Khatami and defeated presidential candidates Mir Hossein Mousavi and Sheikh Mehdi Karroubi.
"If they are the main agents, which is the case, judiciary and security officials should go after them, arrest them, try them and punish them," he said in an article in Sobh-e Sadegh, the Guards' weekly journal.

Meanwhile, Iran's police chief said that protesters who died at a detention centre which was ordered closed last month had succumbed to a viral disease and denied they were beaten to death," the ILNA news agency reported .

He did not specify the disease, nor give the number of people who died, but Iranian officials have previously said that some protesters who died in custody succumbed to meningitis .
Protesters and their leaders have claimed that several people detained over the massive street protests against the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had died after being beaten .

Last month, an Iranian official said Kahrizak was ordered to be closed by supreme leader Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei as it did not meet "required standards.”
Iran's chief prosecutor Ghorbanali Dorri Najafabadi said that the authorities will continue to probe the situation at Kahrizak .

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