{"id":65249,"date":"2011-02-11T11:44:07","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T07:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=65249"},"modified":"2011-02-11T11:44:07","modified_gmt":"2011-02-11T07:44:07","slug":"iranian-opposition-leader-mehdi-karroubi-under-house-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/02\/11\/iranian-opposition-leader-mehdi-karroubi-under-house-arrest.html","title":{"rendered":"Iranian Opposition Leader Mehdi Karroubi Under House Arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi has been put under house arrest, his official website says.<\/p>\n<p>Security officials at the premises say the measures will last until next week, it adds. No one is being allowed to enter the house except his wife, reports BBC News.<\/p>\n<p>Karroubi and Mir Hossein Mousavi, another opposition leader, had called for a rally on Monday to support the popular uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia.<\/p>\n<p>The authorities refused permission, calling it a political move.<\/p>\n<p>Although Iran&#8217;s establishment supports the Egyptian popular protests, a spokesman for Iran&#8217;s judiciary said on Wednesday that Iranians seeking to show solidarity with Egyptian protesters should join a state-organised rally marking the 32nd anniversary of Iran&#8217;s 1979 Islamic Revolution on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Choosing another day to hold a rally means that the opposition leaders &#8220;wish to be in a separate front and will create divisions&#8221;, he told a news conference in Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>Karroubi, a 72-year-old cleric and former parliament speaker, ran against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during the disputed 2009 election which returned the hardline leader to power.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karroubi and Mir Hossein Mousavi, another opposition leader, had called for a rally on Monday to support the popular uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65224,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[21664,21663,21661,21662],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}