Karroubi Talks about the Crimes of Regime

Karroubi spoke with members of the Medical Society who have been active with the reform movement and thanked them for their efforts. He informed them that he had been summoned before court and is looking forward to bringing out his concerns against the regime. He also spoke out against the crimes of the regime which he described as worst than the Shah's crimes:

“I will do anything that I consider as my duty no matter what the consequences are. During the election process, we expected certain things but never expected rigging on this scale and such violence against the protests of the people. Even before the revolution we didn’t see such brutal techniques,” Karroubi told those present. “During those times, women were respected much more than now. Now they beat up girls in front of their mothers and then take them away. We don’t understand these things.”

Karroubi admitted that his efforts for presenting his documentation of the rape to authorities as “useless.”

“They quickly neglected my evidence and said what they wanted.”

Karroubi also pointed out that the authorities are actually “facing the people” and “we are pursuing the rights of the people with their support and on their behalf.”

Karroubi also revealed that the authorities had created a dossier for him to summon him to court. He also stated that when summoned, he wrote under the court order that “it will be a great opportunity for [him] to expose crimes that were even worse than those committed by the late Shah.”