Iranian hardliner calls opposition leader US agent

A top aide of Iran's supreme leader called the country's main opposition figure a US agent and accused him of committing crimes against the nation in an editorial Saturday.

"It has to be asked whether the actions of (Mousavi and his supporters) are in response to instructions by American authorities," said Hossein Shariatmadari in an editorial appearing in the conservative daily Kayhan. The editorial represents the first time that Mir Hossein Mousavi, who ran for president in Iran's June 12 elections, has been publicly called a US agent. (AP)