The Iranian website Lenziran.com assesses that Khamenei's December 29, 2010 speech, in which he blamed the heads of the protest movement for the 2009 riots, and recent statements by senior members of the Iranian judiciary against the same figures, indicate that the arrest of Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi is imminent.
The Iranian authorities have issued an order expropriating the assets of Nobel Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi, along with a ban on her leaving the country.
The Mohabatnews.com website, which is identified with the Christians in Iran, has posted photos of an Iranian citizen, Ali Reza Najap-Zadeh, 23, from Shahriyar village in western Tehran province, who was tortured by Iranian intelligence personnel.
Najap-Zadeh is a recent convert to Christianity and is active in the Christian community.
In a speech in Karaj, in northern Iran, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stated that there is no contradiction between family size and the quality of the education that the children receive – because, he said, most of the elite scientists in the country have come from families with many children.
Iranian Grand Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi has lauded an Asian humanitarian aid convoy for making an effort to break the Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip.
Iranian Ambassador to Syria Hojjatoleslam Seyyed Ahmad Moussavi said in Damascus last night that strengthening religious culture would fortify the foundations of resistance culture.
Moussavi made the comment in a meeting with the head of the Iran-Palestine Friendship Association, and some association members.
Turkey's Deputy Culture and Tourism Minister said in Shiraz, Iran yesterday that tyeb brotherly and friendly relations between the neighboring countries of Iran and Turkey would, God willing, last forever.
Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has said that the "great sin" of those who provoked the post-election sedition in 2009 was the fact that they emboldened the enemies.
The Iranian daily Jomhouri-e Eslami has called the establishment of Iraq's High Council for Strategic Policies a U.S. plot aimed at giving it a foothold in Iraqi regime circles by means of its agents – Al-Iraqiya head Ayad Allawi and his men – who will be given intelligence posts in the council and will be the "antennae of the occupiers."
