Tag: election protests

Minister explains lack of trial for opposition leaders

  Mostafa PourMohammadi, Iran’s justice minister, says it was not in the best interests of the regime to put opposition leaders MirHosein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi on trial in 2009 because it would have created more upheaval in the country. ISNA reports that PourMohammadi said: “Certain decisions were the outcome of a collective deliberation by […]