Tehran, Iran, Dec. 23
By Mehdi Sepahvand – Trend:
The leaders of the post-2009 election opposition had worked in cooperation with opposition abroad in advance to create the hectic situation that ensued after the election, Iranian MP Mojtaba Zonnuri said.
“Months before the election, some leaders of a nationalist-religious group went to the US and made plans in a meeting with opposition activists there. The outcome of the meeting was allegations about election rigging and pushing for annulment of the election,” he said, ISNA news agency reported December 23.
The MP then said that the house arrest of the post-election opposition leaders is not an act of injustice, but a demonstration of Islamic forgiveness.
“If the house arrest is to end, the substitute for it would be hanging, not freedom,” he stressed, rebuking calls to free Mirhossein Mousavi and Mahdi Karroubi.
The two disputed the 2009 presidential election that returned Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to office, and protests broke out across Iran. They have been held under house arrest since February 2011.