Report: Iran releases grandson of powerful former president Rafsanjani
By APTuesday, March 23, 2010
Iran frees grandson of powerful ex-president
TEHRAN, Iran — An Iranian semiofficial news agency quotes Tehran prosecutor as saying the grandson of influential former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has been released on bail.
The Tuesday report by Fars quotes prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dowlatabadi as saying authorities Monday released Hasan Lahouti after it interrogated him. He was freed on a $73,000 bail.
Fars said Monday that Hasan Lahouti was arrested at Tehran airport upon arrival from London late Sunday.
The Monday report did not say why Lahouti was detained.
Rafsanjani, a powerful figure in Iran’s clerical establishment, supported opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi in his challenge to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who the opposition says won June elections by fraud.
