Iranian opposition leader's wife accuses supreme leader over protest crackdown | World news | guardian.co.uk

Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/14/iranian-opposition-supreme-leader-crackdown

The wife of one of Iran's opposition leaders today accused the nation's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, of allowing violence and abuses to crush opposition supporters, including the alleged beating of her son during last week's protests.
Fatemeh Karroubi claimed her son Ali was savagely attacked inside a mosque by hardline militiamen amid a large-scale security crackdown on Thursday during events marking the 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution.
"They beat him up and insulted him along with other people arrested. This happened in a house of God,"

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