by Mohammadreza Sardari Figures at various levels of the Islamic Republic continue to react to the release of audio files involving conversations between the late dissident cleric Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri and top govement figures regarding the “death committee” in charge of the mass execution of political prisoners in Iran in 1988. Hassan Khomeini a reformist political figure and one of the 15 grandchildren of Khomeini, sits in front of a poster of his grandfather. Ayatollah Montazeri who in the 1980s was positioned to succeed the leader of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, was sidelined and put under house arrest for his challenge to the mass execution of dissidents in the country’s prisons. Hassan Khomeini, son of Ahmad Khomeini who is referred to in the audio files as one of the chief initiators of the executions has challenged the veracity of the statements attributed to his father and questions the objective of releasing what he refers to as “li

by: Ehsan Mehrabi It has now been established that Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) Supreme Leader has absolute jurisdiction over the release of the three opposition leaders who have been under house arrest since February 2011. Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mehdi Karroubi and Zahra Rahnavard are the leader of the 2009 Green Movement in Iran and they are still being kept under house arrest without due processes. The cessation of the house arrests hangs solely on the order of Ali Khamenei, IRI’s Supreme Leader. He, however, will only give that order if it does not appear as surrender to his opponents. Ali Khamenei was at first hoping that the Green Movement would subside across the country so the release could occur without political reverberations, like the termination of late dissident cleric, Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri’s house arrest which made the headlines for only a day and made no ri