Iran's Khamenei, 'deep state' keeping presidential candidates locked up for 10 years, ex-diplomat says
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Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi had run against then-President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2009
They had run against then-President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2009. "Why has this process lasted so long?" former Iranian diplomat Mehrdad Khonsari asked of their irregular, unjustified detention. "Why has there been no trial? Why has there been no amnesty? Part of President [Hassan] Rouhani’s manifesto when he first got elected eight years ago was to release these people. Why has that not happened? It’s because the kind of accession to demands of the deep state required by Khamenei was not met by them."More Related News