Director Ashgar Farhadi holds the Oscar for his "A Separation", winner of Best Foreign-Language Film (Photo: Reuters)
0600 GMT: On Sunday, we mentioned the rumour, carried on the opposition site Rah-e Sabz, that the son of the Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, had seen the detained opposition figure Mir Hossein Mousavi. The story claimed that Khamenei was seeking Mousavi's co-operation to deal with the "crisis" in Iran.
BBC Persian is also circulating the report, saying that an "informed source" amongst the opposition has confirmed that the meeting took place.
Mousavi, along with his wife Zahra Rahnavard and fellow 2009 Presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi and his wife Fatemeh, has been held under strict house arrest since mid-February 2011.
An EA correspondent assesses that the claim may be propaganda from the Green Movement before Friday's Parliamentary elections, both overshadowing the vote and causing uncertainty amongst those who are thinking of participating.
At the same time, I recall that last month, a well-placed EA source in Tehran offered the solid information that meetings had taken place between high-level regime officials with opposition members, urging them to bring out their followers to the Parliamentary polls.
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