Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jun. 21 – Recent comments by defeated presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi and his decision to go public with information about tampering of the polls have aroused the wrath of the ruling clerics, including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Reports from Tehran indicated that members of the paramilitary Bassij had attacked Karroubi’s residence and threatened to lay siege to it, and an array of military and political institutions closely identified with Khamenei issued statements denouncing the cleric’s “moves that only help the enemies of the Islamic Republic”.

Iran Focus: London, Jun. 21 – A 49-year-old former commander in Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards catapulted to super-politician status by the unexpected results of Friday’s presidential elections in Iran found himself at the centre of a growing controversy over allegations
of vote fraud, his own shadowy past, and speculations over a crafty scheme by the top leaders of the clerical regime to lure voters to the polling booths.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 21 – A young prisoner in Iran has sewn his mouth in protest to a sudden increase in his prison time, according to a state-run daily. The young man, only identified by his first name Mohsen, has been in prison for the past four years, Hamshahri reported in its Sunday edition.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 21 – Two relatives of political prisoners have been arrested for a second time after having once appeared in front of a judge for protesting outside Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison.
The pair, a woman by the name of Maryam Arayi and a man by the name of Mehdi Farhi-Shandiz, were originally arrested along with other relatives of political prisoners who held a vigil in front of Evin Prison on June 14 and June 15.