TEHRAN — The daughter of
Iran’s former
president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was charged with carrying out propaganda
activity against the country and blasphemy in social media comments, the
judiciary said Sunday.
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“The indictment ... has been issued and referred to
the court on the charges of propaganda activity against the system of the
Islamic Republic of Iran and blasphemy,”
Tehran’s chief prosecutor Ali Salehi
said, according to the judiciary’s website Mizan Online.
The charges are connected to comments reportedly
made by Faezeh Hashemi, 59, a former lawmaker and a women’s rights activist,
during an audio debate on a social media forum in April.
Hashemi is
reported to have said that Iran’s demand for the
Revolutionary Guards — the
ideological arm of the country’s military — to be removed from a US terror list
was “damaging” to the country’s “national interests”, according to local media.
Removal of the terror designation of the Guards is a
key sticking point in negotiations over restoring Tehran’s frayed 2015 nuclear
deal with world powers.
Hashemi also made separate comments concerning
Khadija, the wife of the Prophet Mohammed.
She is reported to have called Khadija a “businesswoman”,
showing that women can also engage in economic activity, and whose money the
prophet spent.
She later said the comments had been a “joke ...
without any intention of causing insult”, state news agency IRNA reported.
Hashemi’s late father was a moderate who advocated
improved ties with the West and the US.
In 2012, she was sentenced to six months in jail on
charges of “propaganda against the Islamic republic”.
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