{"id":282718,"date":"2026-02-09T21:17:48","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T21:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/282718\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T21:17:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T21:17:48","slug":"iran-reformist-party-seeks-release-of-azar-mansouri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/282718\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran reformist party seeks release of Azar Mansouri"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Islamic Iran Nation’s Union Party sought the release of secretary-general Azar Mansouri, the Shargh newspaper said on Monday, after her arrest along with other members of the Reform Front, an umbrella body of Iranian<\/a> reformists and moderates.<\/p>\n

A campaign of mass arrests and intimidation has led to the arrests of thousands as authorities seek to deter further protests<\/a> after last month’s crackdown on the bloodiest unrest since the 1979 Islamic Revolution<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, state media said three senior figures from Iran’s Reform Front were arrested, among them Ebrahim Asgharzadeh, Mohsen Aminzadeh, and Azar Mansouri, who acts as the front’s head.<\/p>\n

Shargh said at least two more Reform Front members were asked to report to the prosecutor’s office in Tehran’s Evin prison on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The Reform Front’s spokesperson, Javad Emam, was also arrested, Mansouri’s lawyer, Hojjat Kermani, said on Monday, adding that it was unclear what charges those detained faced.<\/p>\n

\"AnAn illustration of handcuffs over an Iranian flag. (credit: GagoDesign\/Shutterstock)<\/p>\n

“We basically don’t know what caused these arrests, because the Reform Front has not yet issued a statement about the recent events (protests),” Kermani told the Iranian Labour News Agency (ILNA). “Individuals may have commented on their own.”<\/p>\n

On Sunday, the judiciary’s media outlet Mizan said “four important political elements supporting the Zionist (regime) and the United States” were indicted, but gave no details.<\/p>\n

Tehran has blamed unrest-related violence on “rioters and armed terrorists,” it says, who were backed by its key enemies, Israel and the United States.<\/p>\n

Past Reform Front statements have been highly critical of authorities. After the 12-day war against Israel<\/a>, its members warned that “incremental collapse” awaited the country if it did not adopt fundamental reforms.<\/p>\n

Kermani said the recent arrests were not related to a judicial case launched against the Front after that statement, however.<\/p>\n

Who is the Islamic Iran Nation’s Union Party?<\/p>\n

The Islamic Iran Nation’s Union Party was approved as a political party by the Interior Ministry in April 2015.<\/p>\n

Mansouri became the deputy secretary-general in 2017 and the secretary-general in 2021.<\/p>\n

The party initially faced accusations that it serves as a front for the Islamic Iran Participation Front, which was banned by the regime in April 2010 following the Green Movement protests, but the party has denied this allegation.<\/p>\n

The party currently has one member in Iran’s parliament, the Majlis, affiliated with the Iranian Reformists movement, led by President Masoud Pezeshkian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Islamic Iran Nation’s Union Party sought the release of secretary-general Azar Mansouri, the Shargh newspaper said on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[13840,42,87,79845,55,21451,15005,70579,43,238,28975,3336,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-282718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-arrest","tag-headlines","tag-iran","tag-islamic-regime","tag-islamic-republic","tag-islamic-revolution","tag-israel-iran-war","tag-judiciary","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-reform","tag-tehran","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}