The wife of an Iranian political activist who criticized the Islamic Republic’s ruling system says he has been arrested. Fereshteh Mazinani, the wife of Mehdi Nasiri, announced on Telegram that he was arrested after the couple visited the tomb complex of a Persian poet in the northeastern city of Mashhad.
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Nasiri filmed a video in which he spoke about Ferdowsi and his great role in the Persian language, Mazinani said. According to her, Nasiri also mentioned the tomb complex was created in 1934 under the reign of Reza Shah Pahlavi, the founder of the Pahlavi dynasty, and developed in 1964 by his son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. The son, the last Shah of Iran, was overthrown by the Islamic Revolution in 1979.
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