"Iranian hardliner calls opposition leader US agent" by Ali Akbar Dareini, Associated Press Writer | July 4, 2009
TEHRAN, Iran --A top aide to Iran's all-powerful leader has accused the country's main opposition leader of being an American agent who should be tried for treason....
The accusation appeared to be part of an effort by the leadership to portray the opposition and those behind the street unrest as agents working for foreign powers.
Yeah, not like we have ever done that before!
A detained Iranian employee of the British Embassy has also been charged with harming Iran's national security, his lawyer said Saturday, in a step certain to increase tension with Europe....
The semi-official news agency Fars reported this week that another prominent reformer, former Vice President Mohammad Ali Abtahi, had "confessed that he has provoked people and students to anarchy and riots and velvet revolution." It also said Mohammad Ghoochani, editor of the Etemad-e-Melli newspaper, had confessed to receiving training overseas to "organize a velvet revolution."
The phrase refers to the huge demonstrations in Czechoslovakia in 1989 that forced the Communist regime to abandon power. Western-oriented intellectuals and activists were at the heart of those demonstrations, and Iran's frequent use of the phrase underlines authorities' contention that the postelection protests were fomented by foreign influence. Iran blames the United States and Britain in particular.
Their families have rejected the charges as baseless saying confessions obtained under pressure were worthless.
Unless they are 9/11 patsies the U.S. tortured!
The double-standards and hypocrisy make you ill.
About a dozen prominent reformist leaders have been detained since protests began after the election, lawyer Saleh Nikbakht, who represents a number of them, told the AP. He said they had been charged with "agitating against the ruling system and acting against national security."
Newsweek correspondent Maziar Bahari, a dual Iranian-Canadian citizen, also in custody, faces the same charge, the lawyer said....
Another WESTERN SPY, 'eh?
Globe gave me this online: Clerics defy leader on Iran election, ask for nullification (By Michael Slackman and Nazila Fathi, New York Times)
I didn't even bother to read it.
F*** them and their games.
For more see my Iran labels.
