Mojtaba Khamenei attended the funeral ceremony of Vahid Haghanian's brother

Ansari protested about the way government officials had been treated in the run-up to that year’s ceremonies, and stated that Vahid Haghanian had “not responded to his calls” between  April 20 and June 4. Then in February 2011, shortly after reformist figure Mehdi Karroubi was detained, the website Saham News reported that it was Vahid Haghanian who had arrested Karroubi at his place of residence before escorting him and his wife to Heshmatieh Prison, a converted army barracks in Tehran.