"I think his situation will be fixed soon," said Rassam's lawyer, Abdul-Samad Khorramshahi, who also represented jailed journalist Roxana Saberi. "I think that in the next few days I will get good news."
Khorramshahi said he visited the Revolutionary Court to discuss Rassam's case. Authorities have not yet formally lodged a complaint against him, but could decide to do so in a week.
The arrest of Rassam and his colleagues heightened the confrontation between Iran and the West over the election and its aftermath, in which images of baton-wielding plainclothes militiamen beating demonstrators were broadcast around the world.
Tehran, which has accused London of planning and fomenting the unrest, has sought to depict Iran's greatest domestic political challenge in 30 years as a foreign plot.
Even as Mousavi's supporters described plans for a political party in the daily newspaper Etemad-e-Melli, a campaign against the movement continued. An editorial to appear in today's editions of Sobh Sadegh, a newspaper close to the Revolutionary Guard, argues that the Guardian Council should bar "liars and rabble-rousers who were running for president" from taking part in electoral politics.
Several well-known Iranian actors have been banned from state television because of their support for Mousavi, according to the Khabar Online news website.
Authorities say that many of those swept up in the postelection unrest have been released from prison. The pro-government Basiji militia said it had released all but 100 of the 1,000 people it had arrested.
But some independent observers put the number of those detained much higher.
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daragahi@latimes.com
Special correspondent Ramin Mostaghim in Tehran contributed to this report.
