Posted on 09/08/2009 4:46:00 PM PDT by freedom44
TEHRAN, Iran - Iranian security agents on Tuesday raided offices connected to senior reformist leader Mahdi Karroubi, arresting four aides and closing the headquarters of his political party, which had been probing abuse of protesters arrested in the country's postelection crackdown.
The raids appeared aimed at crushing a campaign spearheaded by Karroubi to bring to light alleged torture and rapes of detainees — allegations that have deeply embarrassed Iran's government and clerical leadership.
The raids also come amid increasing calls by hard-line clerics and commanders in the Revolutionary Guard for the arrest of Karroubi and fellow opposition leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and former President Mohamad Khatami. Arresting any of the three would be a major escalation in a crackdown that the opposition says aims to wipe out their movement completely.
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The raids appeared aimed at crushing a campaign spearheaded by Karroubi to bring to light alleged torture and rapes of detainees — allegations that have deeply embarrassed Iran's government and clerical leadership.
From Iran Green Movement
"Security agents raided the headquarters of Karroubi's National Confidence Party on Tuesday, arresting two party members and confiscating "documents and electronic devices containing information about the party's investigation into abuses of detained protesters in prisons," party spokesman Esmaeil Gerami Moghaddam told The Associated Press."
The word Allegations, must have been an AP addition. There is a world of evidence that the atrocities did in fact happen. And evidence that the number of deaths are masked by scattered mass graves.
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