Vom Hausarrest zum Arresthaus

Wie es aussieht, sind die beiden grünen Gallionsfiguren Karrubi und Moussavi mit ihren Ehefrauen von den Revolutionsgarden „weggebracht“ worden. Die Fiktion einer Nichtverhaftung der beiden Oppositionellen – durch die jüngsten Verschärfungen des „Hausarrests“ und durch die totale Isolation sowieso längst eine Farce – dürfte für das Regime nun schwer durchzuhalten sein. Die Verhaftung zugeben aber würde bedeuten interne Gräben weiter aufzureißen.

enduring america: The House Arrests. The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran reports from „an informed source“ that the two political dissidents are no longer under house arrest and have been moved to a “safe house”, controlled by the Revolutionary Guard, in an area close to Tehran. Presumably, if the story is true, Mousavi’s wife Zahra Rahnavard and Karroubi’s wife Fatemeh have also been moved.

A Karroubi neighbour told ICHRI that security forces who were present on Karroubi’s street are gone: “I am certain that [the Karroubis] are no longer inside their home. All the windows are broken and nobody is home.“

Mousavi and Rahnavard’s daughters have said that lights have not been turned on in the house for several evenings and an eyewitness says there is no sign of activity near the residence in the Pastor neighbourhood of Tehran.