TEHRAN MP from Khorramabad Abdolrahim Baharvand said here Sunday that Deputy Interior Minister for Political Affairs Mostafa Tajzadeh will, on Tuesday, appear in court dealing with Khorramabad incident.
Baharvand, showing IRNA a scroll which lacked any signature, said a large number of people from Khorramabad had signed a scroll, calling for confronting those involved in compiling a report on the Khorramabad incident for Majlis Research Board.
He quoted the scroll' as saying that the report had insulted legal and real entities, particularly the citizens of Khorramabad.
He also rejected reports on court summons or arrest of certain people accused in the Khorramabad incident while letting others allegedly involved go scot-free.
Tajzadeh is alleged to have played a role in last August's unrest in the western city of Khorramabad, a reliable source said here Monday.
Tajzadeh previously received summons to appear in court on the said day to answer certain charges brought up against him in connection with the turmoil.
On Monday, the deputy head of Majlis investigation panel into the Khorramabad turmoil cleared Tajzadeh of any wrongdoing in the incident. The allegations against Tajzadeh were dismissed as unacceptable'.
The incident in Khorramabad left one policeman dead and dozens of persons injured, mostly students and police officers. The governor general of the province was also attacked during the funeral of the martyred policeman.
In view of the gravity of the implications, the Majlis dispatched a fact-finding mission to the city to look into the causes of the riots.
Confrontations leading to the riots started when two intellectuals invited to a students' conference, Abdolkarim Soroush and Hojjatoleslam Mohsen Kadivar, were prevented from proceeding to the venue of the conference after arriving in the city's airport.
The conference was sponsored by the Office for Consolidation of Unity (OCU), the largest pro-Khatami student group. After the invited speakers were refused permission to enter the city, disputes ensued which later broke out into violent confrontations.
In the aftermath of the confrontations, the State Inspectorate Organization (SIO) launched its own inquiry into the unrest and cleared the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) and Basijis (volunteer forces) of any wrongdoing, despite claims that members of the two groups had randomly beaten students during clashes in the city.
A report subsequently released by the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) recanted on the SIO report and implicated several IRGC agents in the incident.
(IRNA)