Mehdi Bazargan, then Prime Minister of Iran, named Sahabi as Head of National Budget Center.

[9] Haleh Sahabi reportedly collapsed after trying to stop authorities from removing her father's body.

However, her son Shamekhi was forced to collaborate with the government by[11] stating that his mother died "not due to beatings but because of a cardiac arrest".

[12] Mourners reportedly arrested at the funeral include Habibollah Peyman, a member of the Freedom Movement of Iran, political activist Hamid Ahrari, and Hamed Montazeri, the grandson of the late dissident cleric Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri.

[13] Fars news agency denied there had been any clash with police and accused the opposition movement of seeking to politicise the incident.