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Trials Begin for 100 Iranian Reformists
01/08/2009 23:17
Trials began on Saturday in Iran for 100 opposition supporters, who have been charged with planning and participating in the Teheran street protests during the weeks after the presidential elections. The charges include planning the protests approximately a year before the elections, with funds provided by foreign sources. Reuters reports that Mir Hussein Moussavi, the opposition leader, denied that allegation, saying, "The justice-seeking and sacred movement has no links whatsoever to foreign elements and is completely domestic," and claims that the goal of the protests is to restore the "nation's rights."