Faezeh Hashemi, daughter of the former president, Ali Akbar Hashem
Iran's state-run news agency says authorities have arrested the daughter of former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani for taking part in a banned demonstration called by opposition leaders.
IRNA says Faezeh Hashemi was identified and arrested while making “blunt statements” and “chanting provocative slogans.”
A separate report by Iran's Fars News Agency said she was arrested while “leading a number of anti-revolutionaries and rioters.”
Iran's opposition Green Movement had called for demonstrations Sunday.
Opposition websites said protests were under way in a number of squares and streets in Tehran.
Iranian authorities vowed to crack down if opposition leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi went ahead with the protests.
Iran's interior minister, Mostafa Mohammad Najjar, said protesters will be “confronted.”
The government describes Mousavi and Karroubi as “seditionists.” Conservative lawmakers have called for both to be tried and executed.