By Banooye Sabz
September 11, 2013
Following the appointment of Ali Shamkhani by the newly elected president Rohani to head of Iran’s Supreme Council for National Security, Mehdi Karroubi’s son, Mohammad Taghi Karroubi reported on his facebook page that Iran’s Supreme Leader has agreed to the Council reviewing the case against the three opposition leaders under house arrest.
Mohammad Taghi Karroubi’s facebook page reads:
“Several weeks ago there were talks in political circles of a meeting between Hashemi Rafsanjani and the Supreme Leader in which the issue of putting an end to the illegal house arrest of the leaders of the Green Movement was presented to the head of the Expediency Council. It has been reported that the Supreme Leader has agreed to refer the case to the Supreme Council for National Security and its newly appointed head Ali Shamkhani. The appointment of Shamkhani [by President Rouhani] a competent and empowered figure who played a valuable role during the eight year war against Iraq and has always been inline with the people, is greatly appreciated, renewing the hope for the release of the Green leaders under house arrest and freedom for all political prisoners behind bars”.
Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mehdi Karroubi and Zahra Rahnavard have been under illegal house arrest since February 14th, 2010. In the months following the presidential elections in June 2013, many political and religious figures have added their voices to that of the nation at large, demanding their immediate release.
Source: Kaleme http://kaleme.org/1392/06/20/klm-157969/
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