Sunday, May 15, 2011

Iranian liberal dissident Director Resigns (AP)

TEHRAN, Iran – the Liberal Democratic Party leader Sunday resigned from the tax breaks for Iranian dissident was released from prison after one hour.


"I resign from the movement by the Secretary-General's Special Representative on Iran," the official IRNA news agency quoted the Ebrahim Yazdi, 79, as saying Sunday. In order to clarify the criteria for the role of Yazdi et.


Yazdi was jailed in October and released on Sunday at the beginning of Nowruz, the Persian new year's Eve. IRNA also said several jailed political activists, including Mohsen Aminzadeh, a former reformist Minister of the leaves of the Nowruz.


Yazdi, a former Foreign Minister, has been jailed repeatedly draw a vague charges against the clerical establishment.


The free movement of Iran opposes Iran's clerical rule. The party, which had a major role in the 1979 Islamic revolution, but turned against the consolidated experience of active and crushed dissent, eschews violence and in favour of democratic reforms.


Established in 1961, the Party took the country in the Transitional Government following the 1979 Islamic revolution, but Mahdi Bazargan, its leader at the time of the Us Embassy in Tehran was an attachment against the free of charge.

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