In an interview with state TV, Intelligence Minister Mahmud Alavi said Jamshid Sharmahd, whom he accused of having the support of U.S. and Israeli intelligence services, had been detained inside the country. He did not elaborate. Media and officials described Sharmahd as the leader of the Kingdom Assembly. But his family said he was only the spokesman of the little-known group, whose founder, Fatollah Manuchehri, known as Forud Fuladvand, disappeared along with two aides during a trip to Turkey in 2007. Manuchehri was a filmmaker in Iran before the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
