Iran says treatment of opposition is internal affair

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Source: M&C

Tehran/Berlin - Iran on Tuesday said issues related to its opposition were internal affairs and the West had no right to interfere.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast made the comments after Western governments protested the reported weekend transfers of two opposition leaders, Mir Hossein Moussavi and Mehdi Karroubi, and their wives, Zahra Ranhavard and Fatemeh Karroubi, to the Heshmatieh prison in Tehran.

Opposition websites on Monday reported the transfers after Moussavi and Karroubi had been under house arrest for nearly two weeks.

The Fars news agency quoted an unnamed judiciary official as rejecting the reports and said the two opposition leaders were only under house arrest.



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