Iran election candidate threatens to try rival for treason during TV debate

Former leader of Revolutionary Guards rounds on ex-central banker in bruising first debate

Iran's presidential election candidates have engaged in a fiery and bruising first television debate, during which one promised to put another, the former governor of the central bank, on trial for treason and ban him and other members of the government from leaving the country.

The threat to put Abdolnaser Hemmati on trial was made on Saturday by the former leader of the Revolutionary Guards Mohsen Rezaei, currently secretary of the Expediency Council. He claimed the Iranian currency had been devalued so much by Hemmati that the train of the revolution has turned into a scooter".