On Nov. 4, former presidential candidate Mehdi Karrubi was attacked during rally held on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the seizure of U.S. embassy in Tehran, Radio Liberty said.
Karrubi's son, Mohammad Taghi Karrubi, told Radio Farda that two of the opposition leader's bodyguards and a number of his supporters were injured. "The police forces shot tear gas directly toward Karrubi and his supporters. It resulted in the injury of two of the guards, who were transferred to the hospital," he said.
Mohammad Taghi Karrubi added that officials advised his father not to take part in the demonstration because of the possibility that those opposed to the establishment could stage a "suicide attack."
Discounting the official line, he said that Karrubi's camp considers the violence used against the opposition leader's entourage as a "terror attempt" conducted by government forces.
On Nov. 4, the official Iran celebrates the 30th anniversary of the seizure of U.S. embassy in Tehran. On Nov.4, 1979, the Iranian revolutionary-minded students seized the U.S. embassy in Iran and held dozens of staff hostage for 444 days.