Iran's security forces released Faezeh Hashemi, daughter of Iran's ex-president Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, shortly after she was arrested in an anti-government demonstration in Tehran earlier on Sunday, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.

According to the report, after Faezeh Hashemi "claimed that she was on Vali-e-Asr avenue for shopping dresses, she was released."

Iran's security forces arrested her while she was leading an anti-government demonstration and chanting anti-government slogans in Tehran's Vali-e-Asr avenue on Sunday evening, according to an earlier Fars report.

Faezeh Hashemi had participated in several anti-government demonstrations before and had been arrested once as she took part in a protest rally after Iran's June 2009 controversial presidential election.

The movements affiliated to Iran's opposition leaders, Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, had already called for an anti-government rally on Sunday afternoon.

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