Saeed Bashirtash and Ibrahim Nabovi cited the reason for Lahoti’s arrest as he left the parliament together with Mehdi Bazargan and members of the Azadi Movement during the parliament’s vote on Bani Sadr’s disqualification. A few days later, the news of his death was announced due to a stroke. Lahoti’s family announced in an interview with the weekly newspaper “Sharvand” (No. 70) that according to the medical examiner’s report, there was strychnine poison in his stomach and he did not die a natural death. After issuing the arrest warrant, they went to Hassan Lahori’s house.