Iranian hard-liner calls opposition leader US agent

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.

While hard-line figures had previously demanded Mir Hossein Mousavi be prosecuted for describing Iran’s June 12 elections fraudulent, and leading demonstrations afterwards, the editorial was the first public declaration that the opposition leader was a foreign agent.