Tehran, July 23: With continued attempts in Iran for staging rallies in protest at the presidential election results, Tehran’s governor general says most of those arrested in the latest gathering of July 21 have been released.
“A handful of people were arrested in Tehran’s Haft-e-Tir Square on July 21,” Etemad-e- Melli daily quoted Morteza Tamaddon as saying on Wednesday.
“Most of Tuesday’s detainees have been released,” he added.
Earlier on Tuesday, Iran’s police department put the number of those arrested in demonstrations after the Friday Prayers on July 17 at 40.
Tamaddon went on to announce that “a number of the forty detainees who were arrested on July 17 have also been released.”
Tehran’s governor general said the protestors were arrested in an attempt to prevent possible unrest in the city.
Iran turned into a scene of opposition rallies after the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on June 12.
The Iranian president’s rivals — Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi — reject the election result as fraudulent and continue to call for a re-run of the vote.
—-Agencies