A top aide to Iran’s supreme leader called the country’s main opposition figure a US agent and said in an editorial today that he should be tried for committing crimes against the nation.

Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard today threatened to crush any further opposition protests over the disputed presidential election.

A backstage struggle among Iran’s ruling clerics burst into the open when the government said it had arrested the daughter and other relatives of an ayatollah who is one of the country’s most powerful men.

IRAN’S supreme leader accused the US of stirring up trouble in the country after anti-regime protestors defied threats of a crackdown and took to the streets for a second night running.