On May 29, Ayatollah Sadegh Amoli Larijani, the head of Iran’s judiciary, railed against moderate president Hassan Rouhani for his campaign promise to free the leaders of the Green Movement.
After the 2009 presidential vote, which led to the re-election of hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Reformist candidates Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi objected to the results, saying the vote was rigged. After continuous protests across Iran, the opposition leaders were put under house arrest in 2011.