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...Though pressure from the rape and torture charges sparked a promise by Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei to bring any abusers to justice, the government is now, evidently, pushing back. A parliamentary committee that heard the evidence of abuse collected by the opposition summarily dismissed the charges last week, but two men who jointly presented the claims on behalf of the opposition - top Karroubi aid Morteza Alviri and top Mousavi aid Ali Reza Behesti - were arrested in the raids on Tuesday. The editor of Karroubi's website, which has also showcased the abuse allegations, was also arrested. The day before...
...initial government response to these allegations - deny and dismiss - backfired once Karroubi began to produce eyewitness testimonies in the newspaper he owns. Now the regime is reversing strategy and trying to placate growing indignation among the populace and political hierarchy. Last week, Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei vowed that "no crime or atrocity will go unpunished." On Aug. 31, the semi-official Mehrs News Agency said the government admitted that Ruholamini had died in prison. The chief youth organizer of Mousavi's campaign was also released after two months in jail...
...yield results against a government willing to deploy overwhelming force to maintain its grip on power. Over the weekend, in fact, opposition activists were dismayed to hear reports that former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani had called for unity and for all Iranians to follow Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei's orders to end the turmoil. Coming a little over a month after the influential cleric and Ahmadinejad rival had openly questioned June's disputed election results, the comments suggested that the opposition movement could be losing one of its most crucial establishment backers. (See the top 10 players...
...differences between the Larijanis and Ahmadinejad are both political and personal. Ali Larijani ran for President against Ahmadinejad in 2005; he came in sixth with less than 6% of the vote. Khamenei then appointed him head of the National Security Council, a body that reports to the Supreme Leader rather than the President, who has just one seat on the council. (See the top 10 Ahmadinejad-isms...
Mohammad Javad Larijani, a Berkeley-educated mathematician, has been a member of parliament, Deputy Foreign Minister and adviser to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Bagher Larijani, a physician, has served as Deputy Minister of Health. And Fazel Larijani, a diplomat, spent years posted in Ottawa. All five are bearded and bespectacled...