“What certain foreign media outlets have quoted the IRGC commander as saying… is totally baseless,” the IRGC Public Relations Department said in a statement issued on Sunday.

In the Islamic Republic system, there are legal channels for dealing with wrongdoers and the Judiciary will fulfill its responsibility, the statement added.

The statement was issued shortly after certain foreign media outlets quoted senior IRGC commander Yadollah Javani, who is also the director of the IRGC Political Office, on Sunday as saying, “If Mousavi, (defeated candidate Mahdi) Karoubi, and (former president Mohammad) Khatami are main suspects behind the soft revolution in Iran, which they are, we expect the Judiciary… to go after them, arrest them, put them on trial, and punish them.”