Iranian Parliament Speaker and 100 MPs ignored Ahmadinejad's invitation

PanARMENIAN.Net - Over 100 Iranian MPs, including Parliament Speaker Ali Laridjani , did not attend President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's election victory party. Ali Laridjani openly backs opposition.



Reception was held in one of Tehran's fashionable palaces. The event was attended by representatives of Ahmadinejad's campaign headquarters, as well as Ministers and MPs. But Laridjani and other influential parliament members did not turn up.



All these tendencies testify to serious dissidence among Iranian top leaders, BBC reports.



Opposition leaders Hashemi Rafsanjani and Mir-Hossein Mousavi strive to win Parliament's support for their further actions.

In the meantime, opposition figures won't give up the idea of peaceful protests. On Friday, they plan to shoot several thousands balloons into the air in memory of the girl who died during clashes with the police.



Mousavi claims that authorities try to isolate him, and exert pressures on him for discontinuing protests. On June 24, 70 scholars belonging to Islamic University Teachers' Association were arrested.