Khatami denounced trial confessions
ILNA: ''Authorities should stop spreading immoralities and illegal moves, which will harm the Islamic establishment'' Mohammad Khatami.
Iran Former president Mohammad Khatami denounced confessions of top opposition Reformist figures made at fourth trial of post election unrests.
Khatami strongly condemned such confessions as 'invalid which obtained in special circumstances'.
In a statement issued by his office a day after the trial, Khatami said reports made during recent weeks were 'lies and baseless'.
"Such claims are sheer lies and false," said the statement.
Khatami called on Iranian authorities to 'stop spreading immoralities and illegal moves, which will harm the Islamic establishment'.
In Tuesday court session in Tehran, Iranian-American scholar Kian Tajbakhsh, a former member of the Soros Foundation in Iran, said in his defense statement that Khatami and Mohammad-Javad Zarif, the Iranian envoy to the United Nations, met George Soros, the founder of the network, in 2006.
He said the meeting was part of a plan, which began in 1997, when Khatami took office, to 'overthrow' the system. he added that Khatami has been 'constantly' in contact with the Soros Foundation since then.
Iran has already held mass trials of nearly 140 individuals charged with masterminding the post-election unrest.
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