Iranian authorities report that dozens of saboteurs have been arrested in the recent post-election violence that erupted in some cities across the country, Press TV reported.
"Some of the arrested individuals -- elements of vandalism in recent days in Isfahan Province -- created chaos in the public rallies by destroying public properties and setting them on fire," Isfahan Province Prosecutor Mohammad Reza Habibi told ISNA News Agency on Wednesday.
Habibi said that some 200 rioters have been arrested in the city in recent days, stressing that some of them were linked to foreign media.
He said that many of these individuals were released on bail but added that others charged with hefty crimes were still in custody. Youngsters, who accounted for a considerable number of the arrested, were also returned to their families.
Isfahan's prosecutor also reported that the recent unrest has so far resulted in the injury of 30 to 40 individuals including police officers, Bassij forces and some of the supports attending the rallies; no deaths, however, has been reported.
Regarding the recent chaos in Isfahan University of Technology on Saturday night, following the announcement of the election results, Habibi noted that police would not interfere in the case unless they receive a demand from the university authorities.
Meanwhile, Jaber Baneshi, the head of the supreme court of the Islamic Revolution in Shiraz, told Mehr News Agency that the students who were arrested there in connection with the post-election unrest have been released.
Baneshi added that no one had died in the recent rallies in Fars Province; however, there reports of injures.
Amir Ullah Shamqadri, the deputy head of the law-enforcement and security in Khorasan Razavi Province, told ISNA that some 53 rioters were arrested on Monday rallies, bringing the total number of the arrests in the province to 88.
He urged political parties to speak out their discontent through legal means, stressing they had not received many demands for rallies in Mashhad in the recent days.
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