Posted on 11/04/2002 2:45:52 AM PST by HAL9000
Arrest a reforming top directing
Monday November 04, 2002 - 10h19 GMT
TEHERAN, Nov. 4 (AFP) - One of the high leaders of the principal Iranian reforming party, Abbas Abdi, was stopped Monday, announced official agency IRNA without specifying the reason but by indirectly evoking a judicial enquiry in progress into a survey favorable to the resumption of the dialogue with the United States.
IRNA recalls that Abbas Abdi, one of the leaders of the Face of the participation and who are also one of the former heads of the taking students hostages of the embassy of the United States in 1979, is the director of an institute of survey, Avenir, closed last Thursday.
The judge of the court of the press Saïd Mortazavi, quoted Monday in the preserving daily newspaper Jomhuri-e-eslami, affirms to have evidence that the Avenir institute received 50 million rials (approximately 56.000 dollars) of the American institute Gallup to carry out four surveys on interior and Foreign Affairs.
Abbas Abdi was stopped the day of the commemoration of the catch of attack of the embassy from the United States in Teheran by students islamists on November 4, 1979.
Sunday, Abbas Abdi, which already passed to several months in prison to have called into question the economic policy of former president Ali Akbar Hachemi Rafsandjani, said in a discussion with the AFP not to believe in its arrest in the business of the surveys. Abbas Abdi was also member of the editorial board of a newspaper, Norouz, closed here are several weeks.
Justice had already made stop two Promising researchers at the same time as it closed the institute. One of them was released since.
It had made close on October 1 another institute having taken part in a public opinion poll hustling the Islamic dogma since it indicated that 74% of the Iranians favoured a resumption of the dialogue with the United States, broken in 1980 following the taking of hostages of the American embassy.
The publication of this survey on an ultra-sensitive subject exacerbates the iron arm between the preserving reformers and their adversaries which do not want to intend to speak about a resumption of the dialogue with "the great Satan".
"There is a document signed by Abbas Abdi which shows that 450 million rials was received American institute", the judge of the court of the press in Jomhuri-e-eslami ensures.
Certain Promising employees maintained the relations secret and illegal with foreign governments and elements anti-revolutionists out of Iran, it showed.
I have been writing to an Iranian kid and he tells me some of the strangest stuff! He said all his friends hate the government of Iran now, and their parents all tell them how they miss the US presence!
He also tols me that him and his friends will NOT go downtown toprotest as THE GOVERNMENT ORDERS THEM TO!!
...Maybe I can go visit Iran someday after all??
The younger generation is gearing up for another revolt.
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