Editing Iranian Green Movement (section)

===Government actions===

====Arrests====
{{See also|Law enforcement in Iran|Human rights in Iran}}
On the weekend of 13 and 14 June, in a series of raids across [[Tehran]], the government arrested over 170 people, according to police officials.<ref name="bbc-170">{{Cite web |date=15 June 2009 |title=Masses mourn protesters in Iran |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8100310.stm |access-date=19 June 2009 |website=BBC News}}</ref> Among them were prominent reformist politicians, including [[Mojahedin of the Islamic Revolution Organization]] (MIRO) founder [[Behzad Nabavi]], [[Islamic Iran Participation Front]] (IIPF) leader [[Mohsen Mirdamadi]], and former president [[Mohammad Khatami]]'s brother [[Mohammad-Reza Khatami]], who was later released.<ref name=defeated>{{cite news|title=Defeated Iranian reformist Mir-Hossein Mousavi calls for more protest against Mahmoud Ahmadinejad |author1=Colin Freeman |author2=David Blair|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/5533782/Defeated-Iranian-reformist-Mir-Hossein-Mousavi-calls-for-more-protest-against-Mahmoud-Ahmadinejad.html|date=14 June 2009|access-date=14 June 2009|newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]] | location=London}}</ref><ref name=detained>{{cite news|author1=Robert F. Worth|author2=Nazila Fathi|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/15/world/middleeast/15iran.html |title=Opposition Members Detained in a Tense Iran|newspaper=The New York Times|date=14 June 2009|access-date=14 June 2009}}</ref><ref name=times-arrests>{{Cite book | url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6495691.ece | archive-url=https://archive.today/20110928130845/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6495691.ece | url-status=dead | archive-date=28 September 2011 | title=Iran reformists arrested after Tehran riots | publisher=[[Times Online]] | date=14 June 2009 | access-date=16 June 2009 | location=London}}</ref> Also arrested were [[Mostafa Tajzadeh]] and [[Mohsen Aminzadeh]], whom the [[IRNA]] said were involved in orchestrating protests on 13 June.<ref name=times-arrests/> Anonymous sources said that the police stormed the headquarters of the IIPF and arrested a number of people.<ref name=abc/><ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8099218.stm |title=Iran reformists held after street clashes |work=BBC News |date=14 June 2009}}</ref> Iranian journalist Mashallah Shamsolvaezin claimed that presidential candidate [[Mir-Hossein Mousavi]] was put under house arrest, although officials denied this.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mostaghim |first=Ramin |last2=Daragahi |first2=Borzou |date=15 June 2009 |title=Iran tries to put a lid on election protests |url=http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iran-election15-2009jun15,3,3696525.story |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090624184025/http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iran-election15-2009jun15,3,3696525.story |archive-date=24 June 2009 |access-date=16 June 2009 |website=[[Los Angeles Times]]}}</ref> An estimated 200 people were detained after clashes with students at [[Tehran university|Tehran University]], although many were later released.<ref name=guardian-arrests/> [[The Guardian]] actively reported those who died or were detained in a spreadsheet listing 1,259 names as victims of Iran’s crackdown. <ref>{{Cite web |last=Jeffery |first=Simon |date=2009-06-30 |title=Iran's dead and detained UPDATED |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2010/jan/28/iran-dead-detained-protests-elections-spreadsheet |access-date=2025-03-11 |website=the Guardian |language=en}}</ref>

Acting Police Chief [[Ahmad-Reza Radan]] stated via the state press service on the 14th that "in the interrogation of related rebels, we will try to find the link between the plotters and foreign media".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Keller |first=Bill |date=16 June 2009 |title=Innocent Googling? No Such Thing in Tehran |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/17/world/middleeast/17notebook.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121115235156/https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/17/world/middleeast/17notebook.html |archive-date=15 November 2012 |access-date=17 June 2009 |website=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> A judiciary spokesman said they had not been arrested but that they were summoned, "warned not to increase tension," and later released.<ref name=regret>{{cite news|title=Ahmadinejad: Anyone who strikes Iran will regret it |url=http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1092669.html|date=14 June 2009|access-date=14 June 2009|newspaper=[[Haaretz]]}}</ref> Intelligence minister [[Gholam Hossein Mohseni-Ejehei]] linked some arrests to terrorism supported from outside Iran, stating that "more than 20 explosive consignments were discovered".<ref name=alj-arrests/> Others, he said, were "counter-revolutionary groups" who had "penetrated election headquarters" of the election candidates.<ref name=alj-arrests>{{Cite book| title=Government supporters rally in Iran |url=http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/06/2009616135112133473.html | publisher=[[Al Jazeera Media Network|Al Jazeera]] | date=16 June 2009 | access-date=17 June 2009}}</ref>

On 16 June, Reuters reported that former vice-president [[Mohammad-Ali Abtahi]] and former presidential advisor [[Saeed Hajjarian]] had been arrested.<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSDAH619963 | title=Leading Iranian reformist arrested, his office says | publisher=Reuters | date=16 June 2009 | access-date=16 June 2009 }}</ref> Human rights lawyer [[Abdolfattah Soltani]], who had been demanding a recount of all votes, was also arrested on the Tuesday according to [[Shirin Ebadi]], who said that security officials had posed as clients.<ref name="npr-soltani">{{Cite web |last=Memmott |first=Mark |date=16 June 2009 |title=Iran's Human Rights Activists Being Arrested, Nobel Prize Winner Tells NPR |url=https://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2009/06/ebadi.html |access-date=17 June 2009 |website=NPR}}</ref> Over 100 students were arrested after security forces fired tear gas at protesters at [[Shiraz University]] on the same day.<ref name=guardian-arrests/> [[Reporters Without Borders]] reported that 5 of 11 arrested journalists were still detention as of 16 June, and that a further 10 journalists were unaccounted for and may have been arrested.<ref name=guardian-arrests/>

On 17 June, former foreign minister and secretary-general of the [[Freedom Movement of Iran]], [[Ebrahim Yazdi]], was arrested while undergoing tests at Pars hospital in Tehran.<ref name=guardian-arrests/><ref>{{Cite book | title=Relatives: Iranian activist pulled from hospital bed, arrested | url=http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/17/iran.activist.arrested/index.html | publisher=CNN | author=Ashley Broughton | date=17 June 2009 | access-date=20 June 2009}}</ref> He was held overnight in [[Evin Prison]] before being released and returning to hospital, where according to [[Human Rights Watch]] he remained under guard.<ref>{{Cite book | title=Iran opposition politician Yazdi released - source | url=https://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSDAH944421 | publisher=Reuters | date=19 June 2009 | access-date=20 June 2009}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book | title=Iran: Halt the Crackdown | url=https://www.hrw.org/en/news/2009/06/19/iran-halt-crackdown | publisher=[[Human Rights Watch]] | date=19 June 2009 | access-date=20 June 2009}}</ref> In [[Tabriz]], other Freedom Movement activists and eight members of the IIPF were arrested, with reports of at least 100 civic figures' arrests.<ref name=guardian-arrests/> The total number of arrests across Iran since the election was reported as 500.<ref name=guardian-arrests/>

[[Aaron Rhodes]], a spokesman for the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, stated that "Iranian intelligence and security forces are using the public protests to engage in what appears to be a major purge of reform-oriented individuals whose situations in detention could be life-threatening".<ref name="guardian-arrests">{{Cite web |last=Tait |first=Robert |date=17 June 2009 |title=Iran elections: mass arrests and campus raids as regime hits back |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/jun/17/iran-election-protests-arrests1 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130906194531/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/jun/17/iran-election-protests-arrests1 |archive-date=6 September 2013 |access-date=18 June 2009 |website=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref> In [[Isfahan Province]], prosecutor-general Mohammadreza Habibi warned that dissidents could face execution under Islamic law.<ref name=reuters-habibi>{{Cite book | title=Iran prosecutor warns of death penalty for violence | publisher=Reuters | url=https://www.reuters.com/article/gc08/idUSTRE55H1XM20090618 | date=18 June 2009 | access-date=18 June 2009}}</ref>

In 2011, Mir Hossein Mousavi and his wife and Mehdi Karroubi were placed under house arrest by the government. During his election campaigns in 2013 and 2017, then-presidential candidate [[Hassan Rouhani]] pledged to release them if he were to be elected as president, but the opposition leaders remain under house arrest to this day.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Photo of Iran opposition leader Mousavi, wife shared despite ban |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/3/3/photo-of-iran-opposition-leader-mousavi-wife-shared-despite-ban |access-date=2022-05-17 |website=www.aljazeera.com |language=en}}</ref>