Iranian MP Ali Motahari has spoken out against the recent statements made by Ahmad Jannati, the head of Iran’s Guardian Council, at Tehran’s Friday Mass Prayers against MirHosein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, the Iranian opposition leaders who have been under house arrest for more than a thousand days. In a letter on his website, […]
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Hardliner says Mousavi, Karroubi should be thankful for lives
The head of Iran’s Guardian Council, Ahmad Jannati, said at today’s Tehran mass prayers that the opposition leaders under house arrest should be thankful for not being given a death sentence. MirHosein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi challenged the legitimacy of the 2009 elections. When their allegations led to months of mass street protests, the […]