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...However, another jailed opposition leader, Mehdi Karroubi, failed to vote because the mobile polling box reached him after voting hours....
...Mehdi Moghadari, spokesman for the Isfahan Reformist Coalition, is unconcerned about the lack of visible enthusiasm for the poll in Isfahan....
...It has been a miserable month for Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Iran’s former president and kingmaker in elections....
...But the closed-door trial of one of Mr Rafsanjani’s sons, Mehdi Hashemi, on unspecified corruption and security charges is less to do with the current regime’s fight against corruption than with a growing...
...The judiciary is also expected to find Mehdi Hashemi, a son of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a former president, guilty of corruption....
...Mr Rafsanjani’s son, Mehdi, has been sentenced to 15 years in jail for corruption. The media has been banned from publishing pictures or comments from Mr Khatami....
...“Long live Hashemi; Long live Khatami,” people repeatedly chanted on Saturday evening, as they thanked the two leaders and held up their pictures....
...Two of Mr Rafsanjani’s children have served stints in jail recently (his son Mehdi over alleged bribery charges and his daughter Faezeh over alleged anti-regime propaganda)....
...Mehdi Hashemi was released on Sunday night after his family paid bail of IR100bn ($8.1m). No details were given on his interrogation or his likely trial date....
...Ms Hashemi said she had less information about her brother Mehdi’s condition....
...Since then, the regime has jailed and purged reformists from the political hierarchy, put two opposition leaders – Mir-Hossein Moussavi and Mehdi Karroubi – under house arrest, imposed a travel ban on Mr...
...Mehdi Hashemi returned to Iran late on Sunday after three years of living in London and Dubai, apparently in an attempt to escape prosecution for his alleged involvement in protests after the disputed presidential...
...It was only after his mentor and ally, the influential Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, was barred from the race that he became a serious contender....
...But the imprisonment of Ms Hashemi and a long-issued arrest warrant for Mehdi Hashemi, a son of Mr Rafsanjani, show pragmatists face a tough power struggle....
...The prisoners include Nasrin Sotoudeh, a prominent lawyer for women’s rights, Faezeh Hashemi, a daughter of former conservative president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and members of Mujahedin-e-Khalq, or MEK...
...When the MEK began its efforts to claim the mantle of being “Iran’s main opposition,” genuine Iranian opposition leaders such as Mehdi Karroubi and Zahra Rahnavard immediately pushed back....
...The pro-government Fars news agency said Faezeh Hashemi, one of the daughters of former president Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani, was briefly detained on Sunday while she was “leading, chanting [slogans] and provoking...
...Many demonstrators condemned Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani, the former president, regarded as being the leading figure behind the opposition....
...Mehdi Hashemi, Mr Rafsanjani’s son, is in exile. The judiciary has filed a lawsuit against him for his alleged corruption....
...Iran’s judiciary says there is already a file against Mehdi Hashemi, the second son of Mr Rafsanjani, on corruption charges....
...The legal complaint was revealed by domestic media, which quoted one of Mr Rafsanjani’s sons, Mehdi Hashemi....
...Mir-Hossein Moussavi and Mehdi Karroubi, both presidential candidates, were also forced to leave after being attacked by “angry people”, according to the state news agency IRNA....
...Meanwhile, other regional countries like Qatar and Oman are growing,” says Mehdi Fakheri, deputy head of Iran’s chamber of commerce for international affairs....
...He cited in particular Mohammad-Ali Abtahi, who was Mr Khatami’s vice-president, as saying his former boss and Mehdi Hashemi wanted to secure a victory for reformists in the election to “help achieve a ruling...
...Mehdi Karroubi, the former speaker of parliament who is now an outspoken opposition leader, also has a long revolutionary background....
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