An Iranian court sentenced the cultural advisor of the reformist National Trust Party (NTP) to three months in jail after he had criticised the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), AlKhaleej Online reported yesterday.
Citing Iranian website Kalema, Alkhaleej Online reported that Shia cleric and politician Mohamed Nuri said in a recent speech that the Revolutionary Guards intervene in areas outside its jurisdiction.
According to Turkish state-owned Anadolu, Kalema is a website known to be close to opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi, who has been under house arrest since 2011 for calling for reform in Iran.
The NTP was established in 2005 by Mahdi Karroubi, who lost Iran’s 2009 presidential poll to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Anadolu said. He has also been under house arrest since 2011 as part of a crackdown on reformist blocs.
Nuri has previously been sentenced three times by this court, describing it as a “private spiritual court” ruled by the intelligence apparatus of the Revolutionary Guards and acts on the basis of “religious authority”.
When Karroubi claimed that a number of his supporters had been tortured inside prisons, Iranian authorities dissolved the NTP.
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