Daughters of Iran's Mousavi barred from visiting him: report

Iranian opposition leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi and their wives have been arrested and put in a Tehran jail, their websites said Monday in reports swiftly denied by a judicial official.The two had been under house arrest after judiciary chief Ayatollah Sadeq Larijani said earlier this month they had committed "treason" and MPs demanded they be hanged."Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, and their wives, have been arrested and were transferred to the Heshmatiyeh prison of Tehran," Mousavi's website Kaleme.com reported.

Iranian security forces have shifted opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi to an unknown location from his Tehran residence where he was being held under house arrest, his website Sahamnews.org said Monday.Prosecutor general Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejei confirmed "restrictions" had been imposed on Karroubi and fellow opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi, in the first such acknowledgement.Sahamnews.org said the cleric and his wife were shifted from their home late Thursday, and that the transfer was witnessed by a neighbour.

Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi urged 17 political prisoners to end a hunger strike which reportedly started 12 days ago over their treatment by jailors, his website said on Friday.The group jailed in Tehran's Evin prison after last year's disputed presidential election include reformist journalists and leading student activists, opposition websites said.Mousavi, who has led an anti-government campaign since the June 2009 poll, praised the hunger strikers for their "resistance" and "standing up for humane and legitimate demands."

Iranian police on Monday blocked access to the house of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi and cut his telephone lines to prevent him attending a rally in support of Arab revolts, his website said."Security forces have sent police vans and vehicles to the alley where the house of Mr. Mir Hossein Mousavi and his wife Zahra Rahnavard is located" in Tehran, Kaleme.com reported."From today the police have blocked the alley where their house is located...There is no possibility of coming and going" to the house, it said.

Iran was urged to take "firm legal action" against opposition leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi in a parliamentary report Wednesday, as prosecutors denied they have been jailed.The demand was made by a parliamentary panel following its probe into February 14 anti-government protests called by Mousavi and Karroubi, whose families say the are being held in a Tehran jail.But Iran denies they have been detained.The panel's report said Western powers, including the Islamic republic's arch-foe the United States, were behind the protests.

Thousands of worshippers and regime-backers have gathered for Friday prayers in Tehran demanding the execution of opposition chiefs whom officials say have rebelled against Iran's Islamic establishment."Death to Mousavi! Death to Karroubi! Mousavi, Karroubi should be hanged!" chanted the devotees as the weekly prayers began.The worshippers were expected later to stream out of Tehran University and join other regime-backers in denouncing opposition leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, former pillars of the Islamic regime, media reports said.

A group of Iranian political prisoners ended a two-week hunger strike in Evin prison protesting against their treatment by jailors, an opposition website reported on Tuesday.The group said in a statement carried by the website of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi that they were ending the strike in response to calls by Mousavi and other opposition figures."We hope the Tehran prosecutor and other officials make good on their promises... and deal with offending wardens who have insulted the prisoners" they said in the statement dated August 9 on Kaleme.com.

Iranian authorities have arrested the chief bodyguard of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi, his website said Tuesday, as hardliners renewed calls for tougher action against the former premier."Ahmad Yazdan-Far, Mousavi's chief bodyguard for 27 years, has been arrested by security agents," Kaleme.com said, without specifying when the arrest took place or why.Many of Mousavi's aides and political allies have been jailed as the regime cracked down on the opposition which rejected President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election last June as fraudulent.