Iran's parliament bloc seeks to sue Mousavi over causing unrest

TEHRAN, Aug. 9 (Xinhua) -- A powerful Majlis (Parliament) bloc of Iran is seeking to take Iran's opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi to court as the cause behind the country's recent unrest, the satellite Press TV reported on Sunday.

The influential clerics' bloc along with a number of other Majlis representatives have implicated Mousavi as the driving force behind the recent turmoil that swept across the country, Press TV said.

"We are pursuing the complaint against Mousavi and soon this letter of complaint will be handed to the judiciary so that the legal proceeding is conducted and the rioters are brought to justice," Mohammad Karami-Radm, a member of National Security Commission in the parliament was quoted as saying.

On Saturday, Iran held the second hearing for the trial of the protestors and activists arrested after the disputed June 12 presidential election.

A female French national and two Iranian staff members of the French and British embassies in Tehran were among the accused who were put on trial for their charges related to the post-election unrest.

The first hearing in the mass trial of about 100 arrested protestors was held on August 1.

Charges against the arrested people included "being connected to the terrorist groups, bombing, carrying weapons, raiding the police, Basij (voluntary militia), universities and military bases, sending images to the enemy, organizing vandals and rioters, damaging public and governmental centers," the official IRNA news agency reported.

Protests gripped Tehran and other Iranian cities after the June12 presidential election, amid claims that the vote had been rigged in favor of incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Iran's state media said about 30 people had been killed in relevant clashes, including some in custody.

More than 1,000 protestors and dozens of reformist activists were reportedly arrested in the wake of the disputed election. Theauthorities said most of them have been released.