{"id":10889,"date":"2010-01-17T23:03:27","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T07:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/01\/17\/iran-jails-opposition-ex-iff-president-for-six-years-lawyer\/"},"modified":"2010-01-17T23:03:27","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T07:03:27","slug":"iran-jails-opposition-ex-iff-president-for-six-years-lawyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/01\/17\/iran-jails-opposition-ex-iff-president-for-six-years-lawyer\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran jails opposition ex-IFF president for six years: lawyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"safahi\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/safahi.jpg\" height=\"405\" width=\"443\" \/>AFP &#8211; TEHRAN,\u00a0 <strong>Iran has sentenced senior reformist and former MP Mohsen Safai Farahani, arrested after the disputed June presidential election, to six years in jail, his lawyer said on Sunday. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Safai Farahani, who has been detained since June 20, was accused of &#8220;acting against national security, propaganda against the system, insulting officials and spreading lies,&#8221; lawyer Hooshang Pour-Babai told the state broadcaster.<\/p>\n<p>He said the reformist had been sentenced to six years in jail for the first two charges and &#8220;acquitted of insulting officials and spreading lies for lack of evidence,&#8221; adding there would be an appeal.<\/p>\n<p>Safai Farahani was rounded up along with scores of prominent reformists and journalists shortly after the June 12 poll which gave hardliner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a second term amid widespread allegations of fraud.<\/p>\n<p>The government accused its reformist opponents of seeking to undermine the regime by instigating mass street protests against Ahmadinejad.<\/p>\n<p>Several have been sentenced to hefty prison terms. Some have been released on bail pending possible appeals.<\/p>\n<p>A veteran industrialist, Safai Farahani, 61, is one of the leaders of Iran&#8217;s largest reformist party, the Islamic Iran Participation Front, which strongly backed Ahmadinejad&#8217;s leading challenger in the vote, former prime minister Mir Hossein Mousavi.<\/p>\n<p>Safai Farahani also served as an MP between 2000 and 2004, and as deputy economy minister and head of Iran&#8217;s football federation under the reformist presidency of Mohammad Khatami between 1997 and 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a little-known student activist, Majid Dorri, was also sentenced to 11 years in jail, opposition website Rahesabz said.<\/p>\n<p>Dorri received 10 years imprisonment after being found guilty of links with the Islamic republic&#8217;s main exiled opposition, the People&#8217;s Mujahideen organisation, the website said.<\/p>\n<p>He got another year for &#8220;acting against national security by participating in illegal gatherings,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFP &#8211; TEHRAN,\u00a0 Iran has sentenced senior reformist and former MP Mohsen Safai Farahani, arrested&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":10888,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":4527,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}