[Pak Daily Times] Hardline 'thugs' surrounded the home of opposition Iranian leader Mehdi Karroubi, pelting the building with rocks to prevent the cleric from attending a rally on Friday, his website said. In the latest such incident, members of the Islamist Basij militia 'violently attacked' the building where the opposition cleric lives, the sahamnews.org website said. The militia, "in a coordinated and pre-planned action, gathered in front of the building which houses Mehdi Karroubi," the website said. "The Basij thugs... with the support of police... disrupted public order and peace. They threw stones, sprayed the building with paint and stole security cameras of the building" in northern Tehran, the report said.
It said the Basij had been gathering outside the building every night since Sunday, and that the harassment was meant to prevent the opposition leader from attending annual nationwide rallies marking Quds Day, or Jerusalem Day. They were "intimidating and terrorising public opinion, especially to prevent Karroubi from participating in the Quds Day rally," Sahamnews said.