Detentions of senior Reformists Front figures follow criticism of the authorities’ handling of recent protestsThe head of Iran’s Reformists Front, the organisation that was instrumental in s
Detentions of senior Reformists Front figures follow criticism of the authorities’ handling of recent protests
The head of Iran’s Reformists Front, the organisation that was instrumental in securing the election of the country’s president, Masoud Pezeshkian, has been arrested by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps in a move that will probably deepen the tensions over the handling of the recent street protests.
Azar Mansouri, the secretary general of the Islamic Iran People party, had expressed deep sorrow at protesters’ deaths, and said nothing could justify such a catastrophe. She had not in public called for the supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, to resign.
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