Azerbaijan, Baku, Nov. 5 /Trend S.Isayev, T. Jafarov/
An unnamed political scientist of Iranian Interior Ministry has been arrested on "propaganda" charges, ISNA reported.
According to advocate Mahmoud Alizade Tabatabai, the political scientist wrote a letter to the Iranian officials, where he expressed his concern regarding the 2009 presidential elections fraud.
At Iran's 10th presidential election, held on June 12, 2009, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad run against three other candidates. IRNA news agency reported the next morning that Ahmadinejad won the election, thus becoming Iran's president for the second term.
After the elections, opposition leaders Mehdi Karroubi and Mir Hossein Mousavi issued a statement and called their supporters to protest the decision.
The reformists of the opposition during the 2009 presidential elections, said that there was vote fraud during Ahmadinejad's win, who won the elections with the help from IRGC and Basij Civil Forces.
Massive protests against the outcome of the election were met with fierce repressions, during which security forces shot and killed dozens of people and thousands were arrested.
The next presidential elections in Iran will take place on June 14, 2013. The voters will elect the seventh President, successor of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.