The Latest from Iran (28 September): Rumbling On
Tuesday, September 28, 2010 at 7:01
2010 GMT: Rumour of Day. We have listened for days as chatter spread about the killings last week of two Tehran doctors, Abdolreza Sudbakhsh and Gholamreza Sarabi, by gunmen on motorcycles.
Iran officials said Dr. Sarabi was killed in revenge over a botched medical case while there were no comments about the case of Dr. Sudbakhsh.
Now Rah-e-Sabz has offered a political link in the case of Dr. Sudbakhsh, who was one of the physicians responsible for inmate health at the Kahrizak detention center, where post-election protesters were abused and killed.
The website claimed that Dr. Sudbakhsh had been ordered by Iranian security officials to give false diagnoses regarding Kahrizak detainees. For example, Mohsen Ruholamini, the son of the campaign manager of conservative presidential candidate Mohsen Rezaei, was initially said to have died from meningitis. Later it was established --- and confirmed in a parliamentary report --- that he died from beatings at Kahrizak.
We're still cautious but the story has now spread to the pages of The New York Times.