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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.
"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 .
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 .
Iran's chief prosecutor Ghorbanali Dorri Najafabadi said that the authorities will continue to probe the situation at Kahrizak .
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