Iran Document: Karroubi Responds to Threat of Arrest

From the Facebook page supporting Mir Hossein Mousavi. Karroubi's letter is in response to the claims made last week by the head of Iran's judiciary, Sadegh Larijani, that there is "enough evidence" to try the leaders of the opposition for inciting post-election unrest:

Ayatollah Sadegh Larijani, assumes that today the civil protest of the people of Iran depends or relies on an individual and, by eliminating or removing Mehdi Karroubi or Mir Hossein Mousavi, this movement will diminish or be repressed.

We witnessed that, with the same assumption, they arrested a group of political figures who have served the country and revolution, who had been ministers, deputy ministers, or members of Parliament, along with some journalists and a great number of people, in the middle of the night. They took them to prisons and put them under pressure and held show trials, but this movement not only did not stop but even strengthened. It is hard for them to accept this reality that this movement is spontaneous and is formed based on firm beliefs....

I was and will be a small servant of the people and as you know, such baseless remarks [made by the head of the judiciary] not only won’t make my determination weak in defending the rights of innocent and those who have been oppressed but rather will make it stronger....Sadegh Larijani thinks that by threatening and intimidating and talking about made-up files in the judiciary system, Mehdi Karoubi will be scared and will shiver from fear. No! Mehdi Karroubi stands behind the promise he has made to the people....

I wish instead of saying such dreadful and political remarks, Ayatollah Larijani would pay some attention to the justice and the judiciary system in the country and would take care of the Kahrizak case [the prison in which detained protesters were abused and killed] and would investigate the suspicious death of the young physician at Kahrizak [Ramin Pourandarjan]....I wish instead of all these remarks he would investigate, in the prisons of the Islamic Republic, what kind of language is being used by its interrogators.