"Abdolfattah Soltani, One of the lawyers representing Iranian opposition leader and journalist Akbar Ganji was released from prison last weekend after a group of supporters signed over the deed of a Tehran property to the regime as bail." and "The deputy director for research of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Patrick Clawson, concurred yesterday. "The big question is are they going to let Ganji go or not? And so far I see no indications that the government is going to do it," he said. Mr. Clawson added that it was typical in Iran to let a few political prisoners out of jail before Nowruz, the equivalent of Arab tyrants freeing such prisoners at the end of Ramadan."

by Eli Lake published on nysun