Key Iran cleric’s party dismisses vote results
The statement by Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani’s party heightens the confrontation between President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s camp and supporters of reformist challenger Mir-Hossein Mousavi.
- Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani meets with relatives of Iranian detainees in Tehran. His party is demanding a restoration of public confidence over what it called “massive electoral fraud” and an inquiry into a crackdown on protesters.
By Borzou Daragahi in the Los Angeles Times on July 7, 2009
Reporting from Beirut — A day after commanders of the Revolutionary Guard warned there was no middle ground in the dispute over the reelection of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the political party of one of Iran’s most powerful clerics Monday defiantly issued a statement dismissing the vote. Read the rest of this entry »
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Filed Under (2009 Election, Iran Domestic Politics, U.S. Relations, human rights) by admin2 on 25-04-2007
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Mousavi reportedly will launch political party in Iran
Opposition candidate’s supporters describe plans in a reformist newspaper. Iranian officials release a jailed European journalist and a lawyer says a British Embassy worker will be freed soon.
By Borzou Daragahi – Published July 6, 2009 for the Los Angeles Time
Reporting from Beirut — The top figure of Iran’s nascent political reform movement, opposition presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi, will launch a political party to pursue his goals, a reformist newspaper reported Sunday. Read the rest of this entry »
Clerical Leaders Defy Ayatollah on Iran Election
By Michael Slackman and Nazila Fathi, published July 4, 2009 in the New York Times.
CAIRO — An important group of religious leaders in Iran called the disputed presidential election and the new government illegitimate on Saturday, an act of defiance against the country’s supreme leader and the most public sign of a major split in the country’s clerical establishment. Read the rest of this entry »
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Iran Cleric Says British Embassy Staff to Stand Trial
A June 15, 2009, file photo shows Iranian riot policemen standing guard outside the British embassy in Tehran during a protest by supporters of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad against European interference in the Islamic Republic's election results. (Photo Atta Kenare AFP/Getty Images)
By ALAN COWELL and STEPHEN CASTLE
Published July 3, 2009 in the New York Times
PARIS — Brushing aside British and European efforts to seek the release of local British Embassy staff members held in Tehran, the Iranian authorities indicated Friday that they planned to put some of them on trial — a move that deepened a diplomatic crisis and could provoke the withdrawal of ambassadors.
Iran ‘must free UK embassy staff’
Published by BBC News on June 28, 2009
The European Union has demanded the immediate release of Iranian staff at Britain’s embassy in Tehran detained on Saturday over post-election unrest.
EU ministers meeting in Greece warned that “harassment or intimidation” of embassy staff would be met with a “strong and collective” response.
Iranian media reported the detention of eight local staff at the UK mission over their alleged role in the unrest.
UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband dismissed the allegations as baseless.
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Iranians rally at Ghoba (Qoba) Mosque
Mousavi supporters join Beheshti commemorators
Published by Press TV – Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:36:24 GMT
Hundreds of Iranians have gathered in a mosque to commemorate the martyrdom of former chief justice Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti.
Supporters of defeated presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi also marched down Tehran’s Shariati Street from north to south and silently gathered outside the Ghoba Mosque — where the event was being held.
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