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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Search Search: Top Iran reformer tells trial vote was 'clean' AFP - Sunday, August 2 TEHRAN (AFP) - - A top Iranian reformist, accused of taking part in deadly riots after the June election, reportedly testified before a Tehran court on Saturday that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's victory came after a clean vote. ADVERTISEMENT In a blow to the opposition movement which claims his re-election as president was due to massive vote rigging, Mohammad Ali Abtahi said there had been no fraud in the June 12 poll, the Fars news agency reported. Abtahi, a close aide of reformist ex-president Mohammad Khatami, said the reformists and opposition leaders had also betrayed Iran's all-powerful supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the agency said. "The 10th (presidential) election was different and it took two or three years to work on it. I think reformists took action to sort of restrict the (supreme) leader," Abtahi told a revolutionary court in which he and around 100 people face charges of rioting after the disputed poll. "I say to all my friends and all friends who hear us, that the issue of fraud in Iran was a lie and was brought up to create riots so Iran becomes like Afghanistan and Iraq and suffers damage and hardship... and if this happened, there would be no name and trace of the revolution left." Abtahi said opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi, Khatami and powerful cleric and former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani had taken an "oath" not to abandon each other. "Mousavi probably did not know the country, but Khatami, with all due respect... knew all the issues. He was aware of the capability and power of the leader, but he joined Mousavi and this was a betrayal," the cleric said, adding that Rafsanjani sought to avenge his 2005 presidential defeat to Ahmadinejad. "It was wrong of me to take part in the rallies, but Karroubi told me that we cannot call the people onto the streets with such a meagre number of votes, so we had better go to the streets ourselves to demonstrate our protest," he was quoted as saying. Mehdi Karroubi, a reformist ex-parliament speaker, won just 333,635 votes or 0.85 percent in the presidential ballot. Abtahi was one of his advisers before the election. Mousavi and Karroubi are spearheading a massive anti-Ahmadinejad campaign in which their supporters have staged street protests over the hardliner's win. Around 30 people were killed and hundreds wounded in the post-poll violence, the most serious political crisis in the Islamic republic's 30-year existence. After the election up to 2,000 protesters, political activists, reformists and journalists were arrested as hundreds of thousands of people publicly challenged the results. Most were later released but around 250 remain behind bars and their continued imprisonment has become a rallying cry for the anti-Ahmadinejad movement. Thousands of protesters clashed on Thursday with Tehran police as they marked the 40th day since the June 20 killing of Neda Agha-Soltan, a young woman whose death has come to symbolise the anti-Ahmadinejad movement. Abtahi was among around 100 people, including other top reformists and aides to opposition leaders, facing charges on Saturday of rioting after the election. Media said the accused are accused of having "participated in riots, acting against national security, disturbing public order, vandalising public and government property, having ties with counter-revolutionary groups and of planning to launch a velvet revolution." The defendants include Mohsen Aminzadeh and Mohsen Safai-Farahani, deputy ministers under the government of Khatami, and Mohsen Mirdamadi, current head of the Islamic Iran Participation Front. Prominent reformists Behzad Nabavi of the Islamic Republic Mujahedeen Organisation and Mohammad Atrianfar of the Executives of Construction are also on trial. Fars said Abtahi, a cleric, had testified that he "agreed" with the prosecution's charges. "But I want to say something, about the velvet revolution part... I think the capacity for such a thing to happen exists in the country, but I don't know if there was a real intention to do it." Fars said the accused, if proven guilty, could face a maximum jail term of five years, unless they are charged with being a "mohareb" or enemy of God, which can carry the death penalty. Email Story IM Story Printable View Blog This Sign in to recommend this article » 0 users recommend Related Articles: World Iran confirms 3 Americans arrested near Iraq borderAFP - 2 hours 1 minute ago Karzai promises Afghan voters a brighter futureAFP - 2 hours 10 minutes ago Russia warns of force if more Georgia 'provocations'AFP - 2 hours 33 minutes ago Russia warns Georgia as South Ossetia tension risesReuters - Sunday, August 2 Residents venture out after Nigerian unrestReuters - Sunday, August 2 Enlarge Photo Cleric Mohammad Ali Abtahi, a top reformist accused of taking part in deadly riots after the June election, has reportedly testified before a Tehran court that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's victory came after a clean vote. 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