Tehran, Dec 29, IRNA -- Minister of the Interior Abdolvahed Mousavi Lari will appear before the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Commission this week to answer questions about attacks on recent rallies, the press reported here on Sunday.

The Persian-language daily `Aftab-E Yazd' quoted a commission member Hamid-Reza Haji-Babaei as saying that some 15 deputies will question Lari why the police had refused to stop those who had attacked three rallies, held in the southwestern province of Khuzestan in November.

Haji-Babaei said he, himself, would question Lari about the failure of the Interior Ministry to authorize a meeting by teachers on December 13, and why the police had attacked the gathering.