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Motahari says Supreme Leader called house arrests a 'favor'

Parliament member Ali Motahari has said that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei considers the continued house arrest of the Green Movement leaders a lighter punishment than the alternative: imprisonment.
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Iran's opposition leader and former presidential candidate Mirhossein Mousavi (C) attends Friday prayers in Tehran July 17, 2009. QUALITY FROM SOURCE. REUTERS/ISNA (IRAN POLITICS RELIGION) - RTR25RB8
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In Iran, the house arrests of three Green Movement leaders is once again top news on Iranian social media after parliament member Ali Motahari recently quoted Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on the issue.

On June 17, the conservative parliamentarian and 11 others met with Ayatollah Khamenei. It was reported that Motahari asked the supreme leader if he would reconsider the ongoing house arrests of the Green Movement leaders, Mehdi Karroubi and Mir Hussein Mousavi and Mousavi's wife Zahra Rahnavard.

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