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TEHRAN, Aug. 9 -- An Iranian senior Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) commander Sunday called for the arrest and trial of opposition leaders of Iran's post-election unrest, the official IRNA news agency reported. Yadollah Javani, the chief of IRGC's political office, announced that "if (the defeated candidates) Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi and (the former President) Mohammad Khatami ...are the main cause of the velvet coup in Iran," the judiciary and intelligence officials should "arrest, try and punish them." "What happened (after the presidential election) was the velvetcoup (in Iran) with the immediate aim of seizing the political power and with the long-term aim of changing the religious establishment into secular system," Javani was quoted as saying. However, the project, which Mousavi was the major leader to carry out, was defeated, Javani added. Earlier on Sunday, the member of National Security Commission in the parliament Mohammad Karami-Rada said that a powerful bloc of Iran's lawmakers is seeking to take Iran's opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi to court as the cause behind the country's recent unrest, according to a satellite Press TV report. Protests gripped Tehran and other Iranian cities after the June12 presidential election, amid claims that the vote had been rigged in favor of incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Iran's state media said about 30 people had been killed in relevant clashes, including some in custody. More than 1,000 protestors and dozens of reformist activists were reportedly arrested in the wake of the disputed election. Theauthorities said most of them have been released. |
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