Karroubi: your resistance has made mockery of prison

The Green Voice of Freedom,

Iranian opposition leader and former speaker of parliament Mahdi Karroubi has met with the family of imprisoned politician Feizollah Arabsorkhi.

During the meeting, Karroubi, Chairman of the National Trust party and an outspoken critic of the current establishment, expressed dismay over the continuing imprisonment of Feizollah Arabsorkhi, a member of the central council of the Mujahedin of the Islamic Revolution Organisation, a formidable reformist group in the county.

Karroubi also expressed happiness over the relatively quick release of Arabsorkhi’s daughter Fatemeh who had been arrested on 19 December along with three other young reformist activists. He praised the resistance of the families of political prisoners in the face of hardship and added, “your resistance has made a mockery of prison and other measures to silence you!”

The 2009 presidential candidate said that the actions of the families of political prisoners and their refusal to remain silent in the past year has had played an important role in the Green Movement’s march forward. “Your appeals to senior [Shiite] clerics has been effective, and when the clerics rise in support of the families [of political prisoners], the un-Islamic treatment of a segment of the establishment against political critics is revealed to all,” he continued.

In the meeting attended by other families of political prisoners, Karroubi expressed hope that the current “plague” unleashed upon the Iranian people would soon come to an end.