A day after reformist leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi publicly said that the verbal assault on the grandson of the founder of the Islamic republic seyed Hassan Khomeini on June 4, 2010 had been “engineered,” Mehdi Karoubi published an open letter to Hassan Khomeini in which he criticized ayatollah Khamenei and linked the perpetrators of the event to the “perpetrators of the serial murders.” Simultaneously, ayatollah Mousavi Ardebili and ayatollah Yousef Sanei, two ground ayatollahs residing in Qom, also condemned the insulting events targeting ayatollah Khomeini’s grandson while several lawmakers too protested to the ministers of intelligence and the interior. June 4th 1963 is widely recognized in Iran as the day when ayatollah Khomeini publicly denounced the Pahlavi regime, which clerics stamp as the beginning of the Islamic revolution that eventually toppled the royalty in 1979.

The reactions came while new information was revealed yesterday about the security apparatus’s planning to disrupt ayatollah Khomeini’s grandson’s speech. Quoting “informed sources” hardline media outlets close to the administration and Islamic Passdaran Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) have made new claims about the incident directed at seyed Hassan Khomeini at ayatollah’s Khomeini’s shrine. Insisting on referring to ayatollah Khomeini’s grandson as seyed Hassan Mostafavi, the media outlets made contradictory claims, on one hand referring to the insults as “spontaneous” while on the other speaking about “the role of behind-the-scenes elements.”

Saha News website, close to Mehdi Karoubi, published the full text of his letter. In the letter, Karoubi writes, “I was extremely concerned when I was informed that this year’s event will be organized essentially by the military, and was certain that it would not end well, although I could not imagine the level of obscenity and indecency that would be part of the event. I had warned several days earlier about that day’s bitter events. You certainly are aware that those who are championing the Imam’s banner today are the same people who stood against the Imam and were the perpetrators of the serial murders! On the other hand, the Imam’s closest aides are not allowed so speak about the Imam.” The reference to serial murders is when agents of Iran’s intelligence ministry were exposed in their efforts to eliminate reformists and dissidents, leading to a number of deaths of writers, journalists and politicians that took place in the late 1980s.

Kalameh website reported yesterday that some of those who disrupted seyed Hassan Khomeini’s speech were members of a religious association in Tehran. According to Kalame, “The night before the incident, after the evening prayers, a pamphlet was distributed among the association’s members asking them to participate in the Friday prayers at the Imam’s shrine and chant slogans in unison during seyed Hassan Khomeini’s speech to ask him to return to the line of the Imam.”

But Javan Online website close to the IRGC, which had previously claimed that the insults were “spontaneous,” wrote that the insults were “designed” by Hassan Khomeini himself.

Raja News website went even further, comparing seyed Hassan Khomeini to “Abu Jahl” and “Abu Lahab,” two of the most hated figures in Islam.