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SPORTS “We submitted this complaint against Mousavi's radical moves to the judiciary a
OPINION few weeks ago,” Mohammad Taghi Rahbar, a hardline member of parliament's in riots, troops patrol Pakistan
judicial commission, told Fars.
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DIWANIYA former President Mohammad Khatami derided on Sunday as a “show trial” of 100 US agribusiness mission to visit RP
reformists accused of trying to instigate a “velvet revolution”. Musharraf's representative accuses
GOOD MORNING Mousavi said that confessions made by protesters at a closed-door trial were made lawyers
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The trial was the latest shot in an official campaign to snuff out defiance by those Muhammad
RSS who say Iran's June 12 election was rigged to ensure the re-election of President
RSS Feeds Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, due to be sworn in by parliament on Wednesday.
“The scenes that we saw were a clumsy preparation for the launch of the 10th
ARCHIVED ISSUES government,” Mousavi said on his website. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei, who has endorsed the election result and demanded an end to
protests, will formally approve the hardline incumbent for a second term on
Monday.
Khatami, several of whose close associates were in the dock on Saturday, said the
trial violated Iran's constitution.
“Such show trials will directly harm the system and further damage public trust,” he
said on his website (www.khatami.ir).
The mass trial of dozens of reformists, including senior officials such as Khatami's
former vice-president, Mohammad Ali Abtahi, paraded in prison dress without his
clerical turban, has no precedent in Iran's 30-year history.
Proceedings were closed to all but state media.
On Sunday, Ahmadinejad's media adviser and close ally, Ali Akbar Javanfekr,
made public his resignation, which local media said had been offered two weeks
ago but not accepted.
After his inauguration, Ahmadinejad has two weeks to submit his cabinet list to the
mostly conservative parliament, which may resist if he only names members of his
inner circle.
Meanwhile, ten more protesters who opposed the re-election of President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad were put on trial in a revolutionary court in Tehran on
Sunday, the ISNA news agency reported.
Defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mohsen Rezai called the prosecution of
members of the security forces behind attacks on vote protesters, the Mehr news
agency reported. —Agencies
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