Tehran, June 20: The Iranian group which planned to organise a rally on Saturday said it will not go ahead with the demonstration as it did not have the required permission, state television said.
Earlier, an aide to defeated presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi had said that the country’s opposition will go ahead with a planned rally in Tehran despite a government warning against new protests.
“I have not heard anything indicating that the rally has been cancelled,” he said on condition of anonymity.
The rally was scheduled to be held at 4:00 pm (1130 GMT) at Tehran’s Enghelab square as announced before by Karroubi.
The plan to hold the rally had come despite Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warning the opposition groups against holding street protests.
“The people have chosen whom they wanted,” Khamenei said in a sermon at weekly prayers in Tehran on Friday, referring to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
“I see some people more suitable for serving the country than others but the people made their choice,” he said to cheers from tens of thousands of faithful, who included Ahmadinejad.
–Agencies