Iran: conspiracy against the leaders of the green movement

By Fereshteh Ghazi (Rooz 1193) - Though, one year after the Khordad 22 election coup, complaints filed by families of post-election martyrs remain to be ignored, the regime is trying to implement a new scenario by forcing the families of martyrs, through threats and intimidation, to speak out and file complaints against the leaders of the green movement.

In this connection, the Fars news agency, which is affiliated with the military-security apparatus, has published interviews with the family members in which they blame Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karoubi for the post-election violence. But in exclusive interviews with Rooz, the families of Sajad Sabzalipour and Meisam Ebadi, two of the green movement’s martyrs, denied Fars’s report and announced that they will file formal complaints against the news agency.

The families warned that, instead of identifying their sons’ murderers, the regime is seeking to abuse the blood of the martyrs, but that they would not allow the government to do that.

Meanwhile, families of the Khordad 25 martyrs have told Rooz that they plan to hold a vigil at the Behesht Zahra cemetery on the anniversary of their loved ones’ death.

The Fars news agency, which remained silent throughout the past year as more than one hundred protesters were killed, is now trying to facilitate the coup government’s plot against Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karoubi by publishing fabricated interviews with families of the martyrs.

The news agency quoted Sajad Sabzalipour as having said, “I hold Mousavi and Karoubi responsible for the events.”

The family of the martyr, however, denied having made the remark in an exclusive interview with Rooz and announced that it would file a complaint against the Fars news agency.

Sajad Sabzalipour, also known as Kaveh Sabzalipour, was murdered on Khordad 30 by a bullet to the head during clashes at the Lolagar mosque and was buried in his hometown of Rasht.

Similarly, the Fars news agency quoted the father of Meisam Ebadi as having said, “I want Karoubi and Mousavi held responsible for my son’s blood and I want these two persons to be punished.”

Meisam Ebadi’s family also denied having made the remarks. Meisam Ebadi’s father told Rooz, “These words and sentences are their own creations. They wanted to force me into saying those things and put words in my mouth, but I just said that they must identify and punish my son’s murderer, which they haven’t still done after a year.”

Meisam Ebadi was only 17 years old when he was shot in the abdomen on Khordad 23 at the Sadeghiyeh square in Tehran.

Last year, in the months immediately after the election, the state-run broadcasting corporation had visited the families of the martyrs to interview them.

The families were asked during the interviews to identify Mir-Hossein Mousavi as their children’s murder, but none of the families had accepted doing so and none of the interviews were aired.