Belarusian “MPs” to visit Ahmadinejad in Iran

A delegation of the “national assembly” headed by chairman of the “council of the republic” Barys Batura will pay an official visit to Iran on June 23–25.

“The delegation of the members of the Belarusian parliament to Iran will be headed by speaker of the council of the republic Barys Batura,” Interfax leant from the upper house of the Belarusian “parliament”.

It is planned that the “Belarusian MPs will meet with the country’s leadership, the Islamic Consultative Assembly, head of the judicial system, some ministers, and businessmen of Iran,” the Belarusian “parliament” said.

It should be reminded that protests demonstrations against opposition go on in Iran. They began in Tehran about a week ago, after results of the presidential elections of June 12 had been announced. According to their results, Ahmadinejad got 62.63% of the votes, his main challenger, Mir Hossein Mousavi collected 33.75% of the votes. Mousavi accused the authorities of rigging the elections results.

On June 20, the eight day of the opposition protects against rigging the results of the presidential elections, the Iranian police used arms, water cannons, batons, and tar gas. Besides police, Basij militia took part in suppressing the rallies.

According to different sources, from 13 to 30 people were killed. Tehran hospitals report about hundreds of people with gun, stab and incision wounds, poisoned with gas.