Iran Reformist Leader Detained, Released
Iranian media reports say that the leader of the newly established reformist National Unity Party has been released after being detained for several hours in Tehran. The state news agency IRNA on August 31 cited a member of the party’s central council as saying that Ali Shakouri-Rad was released on bail. IRNA said Shakouri-Rad had been summoned to court in connection with his travel ban. Earlier on August 31, the hard-line Fars news agency, which has close ties to the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, quoted an unnamed judiciary source as ...
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