Ali Larijani in an interview with Khabar Online: Ghaila in 2009 could have been solved in a different way. Mr. Mousavi agreed to speak on television, but the secretariat refused. There were two ways to solve the problem.

I thought I could solve the problem differently. But we can't say that those who took this path didn't want to solve it. But the solution was different, as it turned out. Well, there are two tastes anyway. At the time, I did not say that I had spoken to Mr. Mousavi. 

The late Ayatollah Hashemi Shahroudi was the head of the judiciary, and one day they called me and said that I spoke to Mr. Mousavi and he agreed to speak on TV for an hour and end the death sentence. He said that he had spoken to Mr. Hashemi and he agreed, what do you think I agree with him? I even agreed that they would say anything. 

Then I saw that Mr. Shahroudi said that the secretariat did not accept this. I also didn't follow up to see what the quality was. But that was it. I think there was another solution, but there were two tastes to solve the problem. I think it can be solved now.