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A political prisoner who recently died in custody is now being accused of belonging to a militant exiled group, according to state-run ISNA, citing an "informed authority".

The news agency says that Vahid Sayadi Nasiri was a member of the Tondar group and arrested for "planning malign operations [against the establishment] in Iran."

Tondar, or the Kingdom Assembly of Iran, also known as Soldiers of the Kingdom Assembly of Iran, is reportedly a militant Iranian exile royalist group seeking to overthrow the ruling government and restore the Iranian monarchy. The group is banned in Iran. Tondar, a name that means 'thunder' in Persian, is not on the U.S. terrorist watch list.

Although it has been described as "a little-known exile group" by the Guardian's Robert Tait in 2009, Tondar has made several headlines in recent years. The group was founded by a London-based former movie dubber, Fathollah Manoucheri aka Forood Fouladvand, who has reportedly been missing since January 2007 while visiting Turkey.

Speaking to Radio Farda's Farhang Ghavimi, Fouladvand's son, Keyanoush, said in June 2008 that his father was kidnapped in an Iranian border area by Iranian intelligence agents on January 17, 2007.

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