Is Iranian regime ready to put ex President Khatami under house arrest?

Source: Saham News

The website Saham News revealed that the Iranian security forces surrounded the residence of former President Khatami, forbidding him to leave his house. Few hours after the deployment, the security forces left the area, permitting to Khatami to go out. In any case, this news is very important, because could mean that – in any moment in the next future – the regime could decide for put Khatami under house arrest, like it happened in February 2011 to Mousavi and Karroubi. The action of the security forces arrived after the decision of the Iranian magistrature to forbid to Khamenei the possibility to take part to public events for three months. More interesting, the fact happened even if few days ago, for the first time, Khatami has expressed his support to IRGC, after the speech of Trump

Khamenei’s representative to Basij: “The Supreme Leader wants the continuation of the house arrest for Mousavi and Karroubi”

Source: Digarban

Hojatoleslam Toyserkani, Iran Supreme Leader representative to the Basij, denied any change of ideas of Ali Khamenei on the destiny of the leaders of the Green Movement. Hojatoleslam Toyserkani added that the Supreme Leader, personally, supports the continuation of the house arrests for Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, the two leaders of the protest movement, repressed by the regime between 2009 and 2011. The two are under house arrest since February 2011, without any formal charge and without a fair trial.

Iranian Ayatollah Haeri Shirazi: “The arrest of Mousavi and Karroubi is lawful”

Source: Digarban

Iranian Ayatollah Haeri Shirazi – member of the Assembly of Expert – said that the arrest of Mousavi and Karroubi is lawful. He added that the two leaders of the Green Movement must remain in detention, because they’ve incited the people against the system during the protest of 2009. The Iranian regime continues to describe the “event of 88” as a “sedition”. Mir Hossein Mousavi, his wife Zahra Rahnavard and Mehdi Karroubi, are all under house arrest, despite the fact that no clear legal reasoning was provided until now.

Iran judiciary orders the closure of MP Ali Motahari website

Sources: AliMotahari.ir, Radio Zamaneh

The Iranian judiciary has ordered the closure of the website of Ali Motahari. The conservative MP, is under attack for his speech in the Parliament in favor of Mousavi and Karroubi. For his words, Motahari was physically attacked by other Iranian MPs (please, click here to watch the video). More, recently Motahari denounced that the “freedom of speech has become more strained under the Rohani administration and self-censorship has become more common in the media“. In an interview with Tasnim News, Motahari remarked that “when the administration is reformist, there will be more pressure to prevent the government’s tendency toward opening the political atmosphere“.

Deputy of German Parliament Claudia Roth in Tehran and her “High Five” with Iranian Ambassador

Source: Manuchehr Lenziran

Deputy of German parliament – Bundestag – was criticized for his meeting with reformist in Tehran , in which he have pointed to house arrest of Mousavi , Karroubi and criticized abuse of human rights in Islamic Republic

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The  incriminated moment of the High Five between Iran Ambassador Attar and German MP Claudia Roth