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Source: The Green Voice of Freedom (GVF)
March 16, 2010

The son of a very senior Revolutionary Guards commander has been arrested in Iran.

Reliable sources have told the Green Voice of Freedom that the son of IRGC Commander Esmail Gha’ani has been arrested. The commander had been against the electoral coup and the suppressions that followed the 12 June presidential election.

Ali Gha’ani is an electrical engineering student at the Islamic Azad University of Mashhad and had had no experience of political activity prior to his arrest last week and no demonstrations were held at his university in recent days either. This raises the suspicion that his arrest was due his father’s stance following the elections.

Commander Gha’ani had been a critic of the 12 June electoral coup and the subsequent clampdowns on protesters. Gha’ani had been far more vocal than other unhappy IRGC commanders and even prevented the forces under his command from taking part in the post-election suppressions of the protesters.

In another clear sign of opposition to the political turmoil in the country and the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Commander Gha’ani refused to take part in the fateful Friday prayers on 19 June, despite warning and threats from close friends and especially, Mohammad Ali Jafari, the commander of the IRGC.

Esmail Gha’ani is a well-known commander of the Iran-Iraq war that lasted eight years. He is also said to be close to the current mayor of Tehran and former chief of police Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf.