Mohammad-Taqi Karrubi was allowed inside his parents’ home last week to see them 5 1/2 weeks after they were locked up inside the home and contact with the outside world severed.
The younger Karrubi gave no details of his visit. He did not even say if his parents were in good health.
He also did not say if his parents confirmed they had always been detained in their home or if they were spirited away at one point, as opposition websites had asserted.
On Sunday, the Karrubis other son, Ali, and daughter-in-law were allowed in the house to mark Now Ruz at a family gathering. Ali reported that both of his parents were in “good health.”
A week earlier, the daughters of Mir-Hossain Musavi were allowed to visit him and their mother in their home. They said a little about the visit but did not say whether their parents had been in the home throughout their detention or had been taken away for awhile.
Meanwhile, Prosecutor General Gholam-Hossain Mohseni-Ejai said he had long expected an outbreak of opposition to the regime but was caught off guard by its scale.
In an interview with the daily Khorasan, Mohseni-Ejai did not see the outbreak of protests as linked in any way to the outcome of the 2009 presidential elections.
He said the plotting for the protests had become more than a year before the elections. Mohseni-Ejai was intelligence minister at the time and said he predicted outbreaks of violence but was ridiculed by unnamed officials who thought he didn’t know what he was talking about.
Mohseni-Ejai said that measures he took to counter the outbreaks included the arrests of Haleh Esfandiari, the Washington-based academic, while she was visiting her aged mother, and of Kian Tajbakhsh, an Iranian-American sociologist, and the surveillance he ordered of the activities of the American-based Soros Foundation, which operated several projects in Iran approved by the Iranian government.
