Possible Attack on Zahra Rahnavard

Reports are coming in that a possible attack on Zahra Rahnavard, Mousavi's wife, took place while she attended protests at Tehran University. Here is one of the reports and a partial translation of what it says:

At approximately 11 a.m., Dr. Zahra Rahnavard, a professor at Tehran University and Mir Hussein Moussavi’s wife was threatened by several women who claimed to be Basijis.

Dr. Rahnavard, a professor at Tehran University of Fine Arts was at the University for the Students’ Day celebration.

According to one eyewitness, Dr. Rahnavard asked the women, ‘Why are you following me?’ And they claimed that they were there to protect her. Dr. Rahnavard said ‘You have not left me alone since the morning, and have followed me from my office wherever I go.’

… Dr. Rahnavard said to them ‘I tell you that I am green from head to toe and you have come here to prevent me from participating.’

The conversation eventually led to verbal conflict. The leader of the women asked Dr. Rahnavard what was her ideology before and after the Revolution.

… Dr. Rahnavard said ‘Are you an interrogator or are you here for my security, as you claim?’ And the woman said ‘You are scared of us.’ Dr. Rahnavard responded, ‘I fear no one except God, and even if you chop me up and send me to my grave, the only sound you will hear from my grave will be that of green freedom and democracy.’

According to the eyewitness, Dr. Rahnavard was successful in getting the university police to eject the women from the campus, but the same trouble that occurred inside, occurred outside as well. As Dr. Rahnavard was getting into her car, they sprayed pepper spray into her face … resulting in suffocation and temporary blindness. Then, people and store owners from area came to her help