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| Top Iran reformist in alleged links with UK intelligence |
| 2009-08-26 |
| [Iran Press TV Latest] Saeed Hajjarian, a premier reformist strategist who was disabled in a 2000 assassination attempt, has been accused of having links with the British intelligence service. During the fourth round of the mass trials held for those arrested during Iran's post-election violence, the co-founder of Iran's main reformist party, the Islamic Participation Front, was linked to renowned political theorist John Keane, Open Society Institute's George Soros and German philosopher Jurgen Habermas. "Hajjarian has twice met with John Keane, the British mastermind connected to MI5," the prosecution said. Hajjarian, the prosecutor said, had met well-known philosopher and sociologist Jurgen Habermas, who is famous for the theory of Civil disobedience. According to Habermas, societies can actively refuse to obey certain laws, demands and commands of a government, or of an occupying power, without resorting to physical violence. The Soros Foundation which according to the indictment planned to launch a "velvet coup" in Iran was also named as having links with Hajjarian. George Soros, the chairman of the foundation, has reportedly helped fund the 1989 "Velvet Revolution" in the Czech Republic. The prosecutor concluded by asking for the "full punishment" against Hajjarian, who has been in custody three days after Iran's disputed June 12 election. The "brain of reformists" is among the 140 people accused of orchestrating the post-election violence in Iran, which resulted in the death of around 30 people and injured hundreds more. |
| Posted by:Fred |