# Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi are placed under house arrest

Date: 2011

## The fact

In February 2011 opposition leaders [Mir Hossein Mousavi](/people/mir-hossein-mousavi) and [Mehdi Karroubi](/people/mehdi-karroubi) were placed under house arrest after calling protests, a freeze that continued for years under Khamenei’s Leadership.

## Context

The 2009 Green file sat in the background. Security organs implemented. Neighbouring 2009 crackdown is the parent. He did not sit as a trial judge because no open trial sat.

June 2009 is the parent crackdown. Mahsa 2022 is a different generation.

The Supreme Leader of Iran is commander-in-chief and the highest constitutional authority. He does not write a US presidential strike order, an IAEA Board resolution, or a Hamas military plan. Presidents, the IRGC, and the Guardian Council implement and share specific files.

## Evidence and sources

Office of the Supreme Leader of Iran carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [democratic resilience](/drivers/democratic-resilience) and justice: a completed extra-judicial freeze of opposition leaders is a dated [civic-space](/drivers/civic-space) cost.

## What is established and what is not

Established: February 2011 house arrest of Mousavi and Karroubi, independently reported, lasting years.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

No open trial sat. The 2009 file was the pretext.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi are placed under house arrest, not a later speech about Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi are placed under house arrest.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi are placed under house arrest on 2011-02-14 is not a licence to treat every later Office of the Supreme Leader of Iran communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi are placed under house arrest into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to Security organs detained them under his Leadership. No open trial sat. The 2009 file was the pretext. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Ali Khamenei: https://factrail.ai/people/ali-khamenei

## Drivers

- Democratic Resilience: https://factrail.ai/drivers/democratic-resilience
- Judicial independence erosion (court capture): https://factrail.ai/drivers/justice-judicial-independence-erosion

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-opposition-idUSTRE71E1Y420110215
- https://english.khamenei.ir/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ir-house-arrest-2011