NCRI – The Iranian regime has arrested grandchildren of Mr. Hossein Ali Montazeri, a senior clergy, and children of another cleric, press reports said on Wednesday.
The move comes after Montazeri on Monday called on Shiite clerics to end their silence over a crackdown on massive nationwide protests in Iran.
"My three sons were arrested on Monday by people who came to our door with a warrant issued by the Special Court for Clergy in Qom," said Ahmad Montazeri, the son of Hossein Ali Montazeri, quoted by daily Etemad.
He said that the children of Hossein Mousavi Tabrizi, who is a member of a group of Qom scholars, have also been arrested, as well as another member of the group. The young men detained are in their 20s, Ahmad Montazeri said.
Hossein Ali Montazeri was Khomeini's successor for ten years (1979-1989). He was dismissed in March 1989 by Khomeini himself for protesting against the massacre of members of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK). Based on Khomeini’s decree, some 30,000 political prisoners, the vast majority of them members or supporters of the PMOI, were massacred in the span of a few weeks in the summer of 1988.
In another development, Hamid Rassai, a member of the regime’s Parliament, called for the arrest of Mehdi Hashemi Rafsanjani, son of Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, mullahs’ former president and current head of the State Exigency Council, Fars news agency reported Monday.
