Coup Supporters Increase Pressure on Karubi

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Mehdi Karubi, secretary general of the Etemad Melli (“National Trust”) Party and the principal revealer of post June 12 presidential election crimes in Iran, has been the subject of threats and attacks from official and unofficial channels associated with coup supporters in the past two days, and Ahmad Jannati, secretary of the Guardian Council, called for his prosecution at the Friday Prayers sermon last week. The day before that, Mostafa Pourmohammadi and prior to that Mohseni-Ezhei had threatened Karubi to judicial proceedings.

In response to all threats, Karubi has said, “The court can be a good place for me to reveal more details and present new documents.” Threats targeting Karubi, Mousavi and Khatami have intensified since the green movement’s supporters have announced plans to participate in the 13 Aban rallies, which is the day commemorating the seizure of the US embassy in 1979.

Threats in Friday Prayer Sermon

Without directly naming Karubi, secretary of the powerful Guardian Council and one of Tehran’s Friday Prayer leaders, Ahmad Jannati threatened the leaders and supporters of the green movement during his Friday Prayer sermon, declaring, “We cannot treat protesters and those who demonstrated the worst enmity toward the regime and saddened the lovers of the Islamic republic all over the world with Islamic mercy.”