New Scenario Against Leaders of Green Movement

Even though a year has passed since the June 12, 2009 electoral coup, complaints filed by families of post-election martyrs remain to be ignored, the regime is trying to implement a new scenario by forcing the families of martyrs, through threats and intimidation, to speak out and file complaints against the leaders of the green movement.

In this connection, Fars news agency - affiliated with the military-security apparatus - has published interviews with the family members in which they blame Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karoubi for the post-election violence. But in exclusive interviews with Rooz, the families of Sajad Sabzalipour and Meisam Ebadi, two green movement martyrs, denied Fars’s report and announced that they will file formal complaints against the news agency.

The families warned that, instead of identifying their sons’ murderers, the regime is seeking to abuse the blood of the martyrs, but that they would not allow the government to do that.

Meanwhile, families of the June 15 martyrs have told Rooz that they plan to hold a vigil at the Behesht Zahra cemetery on the anniversary on the death of their loved ones.

Fars news agency, which remained silent throughout the past year as more than one hundred protesters were killed, is now trying to facilitate the coup government’s plot against Mousavi and Karoubi by publishing fabricated interviews with families of the martyrs.

The news agency quoted Sajad Sabzalipour as having said, “I hold Mousavi and Karoubi responsible for the events.”

But in an exclusive interview with Rooz, family members of the martyr and announced that they would file a complaint against Fars.

Sajad Sabzalipour, also known as Kaveh Sabzalipour, was murdered on Khordad 30 by a bullet that hit his head during clashes at the Lolagar mosque and was buried in his hometown of Rasht.

In another similar report, Fars quoted the father of Meisam Ebadi as having said, “I want Karoubi and Mousavi held responsible for my son’s blood and I want these two persons to be punished.”

Meisam Ebadi’s family also denied having made these remarks. Meisam Ebadi’s father told Rooz, “These words and sentences are their own creations. They wanted to force me into saying those things and put words in my mouth, but I just said that they must identify and punish my son’s murderer, which they haven’t still done after a year.”

Meisam Ebadi was only 17 years old when he was shot in the abdomen on June 13 at the Sadeghiyeh square in Tehran.

Last year, in the months immediately after the election, the state-run broadcasting corporation had visited the families of the martyrs to interview them.

The families were asked during the interviews to identify Mousavi as their children’s murder, but none of the families had accepted doing so and none of the interviews were aired.