TEHRAN, July 21 (Xinhua) -- Iran's Police Chief Brigadier General Esmail Ahmadi Moqaddam slammed the opposition on Tuesday, accusing some opposition figures of trying to sow discords in the Islamic Republic, the official IRNA news agency reported.
Some people were trying to sow discords in the society following the country's presidential election, IRNA quoted Ahmadi Moqaddam as saying, noting that the police would act seriously to defend the law.
"These people claim to advocate the rule of law, but in practice they trample upon it and even breach it," he said, adding that "the police is to seriously deal with any violation of law in the society."
"The security forces should ... act firmly in line with the defense of the law," he said.
Ahmadi Moqaddam made the remarks Tuesday in a ceremony of the police force in Mashhad, the capital city of northwestern Khorasan Razavi.
On June 13, the Iranian interior minister announced that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won 62.63 percent of the total ballots of the June 12 presidential elections, while his main rival Mir-Hossein Mousavi got 33.75 percent.
The other two candidates, former Parliament Speaker Mehdi Karroubi and former Revolutionary Guards chief Mohsen Rezaei, each got less than 2 percent of the total ballots.
After the official declaration, all the three defeated candidates filed complaints over irregularities in the election, while Mousavi and Karroubi have demanded an annulment of the election. Rezaei later withdrew his complaints filed to the Guardian Council about the disputed presidential election.
Mousavi's supporters participated in massive rallies in Tehran and other cities following the disputes. Iran's state media said around 20 people had been killed in related clashes.
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