Iranians worried about their loved ones detained in the protests that followed the presidential election got the ear of a former president, who wants the detainees released, an Iranian reformist party newspaper reported on Thursday.
The government crackdown on protests came after a hotly contested June 12 election. Thousands flooded the streets of Tehran for weeks after incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared the winner by a margin of about 2-to-1 over his nearest rival, Mir Hossein Moussavi, who said the results were rigged.
Former reformist President Mohammad Khatami met with families of some of the people detained and said that if the courts uphold the civil rights of the detainees, the court would order them freed, reported presidential candidate Mehdi Karrubi's party newspaper.
Families of the imprisoned plan to later meet with another former president, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. Rafsanjani, a key cleric, is chairman of Iran's Assembly of Experts, which is responsible for appointing or removing the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Rafsanjani's daughter was briefly detained in the chaos that followed the elections
The government crackdown on protests came after a hotly contested June 12 election. Thousands flooded the streets of Tehran for weeks after incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared the winner by a margin of about 2-to-1 over his nearest rival, Mir Hossein Moussavi, who said the results were rigged.
Former reformist President Mohammad Khatami met with families of some of the people detained and said that if the courts uphold the civil rights of the detainees, the court would order them freed, reported presidential candidate Mehdi Karrubi's party newspaper.
Families of the imprisoned plan to later meet with another former president, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. Rafsanjani, a key cleric, is chairman of Iran's Assembly of Experts, which is responsible for appointing or removing the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Rafsanjani's daughter was briefly detained in the chaos that followed the elections
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