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          PARIS —As dispute swirls around events at a notorious
          prison used to incarcerate political opponents after Iran's
          June12 election, a leading reformist candidate in the vote
          said some inmates, both male and female, had been raped,
          according to news reports Monday.
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          The accusation was made by the candidate Mehdi ARTICLE TOOLS
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          Karroubi, after the Kahrizak detention center in southern
          Tehran was ordered closed by Iran's supreme leader, i /tIaiii
          Ayatollah Ali Khamenei . The center's director was arrested, INc IKS
          according to state media reports. The Iranian police chief,
          Esmail Ahmadi-Moqaddam, said on Sunday that the prison “was only built for
          thugs and gangsters. Election protesters should not have been transferred
          there,” he said, according to state-run Press TV.
          But Mr. Ahmadi-Moqaddam denied that the deaths of two people there were
          the result ofmistreatment by guards, insisting that they had been killed by a
          “deadly virus infection,” Press TV said.
          Continued challenges to the authorities, however, showed the deep fissures
          that have been opened in Iranian society and among its elite by the disputed
          election, which the opposition says was rigged. The vote was followed by mass
          protests on the streets, which were met with a brutal official crackdo vn.
          The opposition has said that at least three protesters died in Kahrizak,
          including Mohsen Ruholamini, the son of a senior aide to Mohsen Rezai, a
          losing conservative candidate in the June election that returned President
          Mahm ou dA l i ma dineiad to po ver with a landslide victory.
          Mr. Ahmadinejad took the oath of office as president last week and is now
          preparing a new government. News reports from Tehran Monday said he has
          dismissedseveral senior Intelligence Ministry figuresin what appearedtobe a
          purge of officials who opposed the brutal gov ernm ent crackdown on dissent
          after the elections. The A.P. said several news Web sites reported the
          dismissals.
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          Following the mass detentions during the crackdown, much attention has
          focused on the conditions under which protesters were held. A top judiciary
          official acknowledged Saturday that some detainees had been tortured in
          Iranian prisons, the first such acknowledgment by a senior Iranian official.
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          The corn rnent had a particular resonance since allegations of torture by Shah
          Moharnrned Reza Pahlavi becarne a central justification ofthe 1979
          revolution that brought the hard-line c)erics to power.
          On Sunday, Mr. Karroubi raised new questions about prison conditions, and
          wasquotedon his Web site assaying that sorne detainees hadbeen raped.
          The Web site quoted a letter Mr. Karroubi wrote 10 days ago saying that
          senior officials told hirn that “really sharneful issues” had arisen in the
          detention of opponents.
          “Sorne young rnale detainees were raped,” the letter was quoted as saying,
          while “sorne young fernale detainees were raped in a way that have caused
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          serious inju ries. There was no irn rnediate official response to the accusation. ________________________________________
          The Web site said the letter was sent to a forrner president, Ali Akbar Hasherni _______________
          Rafsaniani , one of Iran's richest rnen and a powerful adversary of Mr. I Orderyour
          Ahrnadinejad. Mr. Rafsanjani also headsan influential state arbitration panel cOpytOday.
          called the Expediency Council. InteniatlonalBetatbtr ibunc
          The dev eloprn ents coin cide with a rn ass trial of reforrn ers and election
          protesters, in which rnore than 100 people are accused of trying to topple the
          governrnent. The accused included a French researcher and ernployees of the
          French and British Ernbassies, prornpting angry responses frorn Britain,
          France and the European Union .
          Over the weekend, a senior official with Iran's Rev olutionarv Guards , Brig.
          Gen. Yadollah Javani, was quoted by the official IRNA news agency as saying
          opposition leaders, including Mir Hussein Moussavi , who carne second in the
          June 12 ballot, should also be placed on trial for trying to engineer a so-called
          velvet coup in Iran.
          If Mr. Moussavi and other opponents, including Mr. Karroubi and forrner
          President Moharnrnad Khatarni , “are the rnain suspects believed to have been
          behindthe velvet coup in Iran, which they are, we expect the judiciary togo
          after thern, arrest thern, put thern on trial and punish thern according to the
          law,” General Javani was quoted as saying.
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