El 29 de juliol, en resposta a una pregunta d'un reporter de l'ISNA (l'Agència de Noticies dels Estudiants Iranians) sobre aquestes acusacions, Mohammad Javad Larijani, cap del Consell Judicial Iranià pels Drets Humans, es va reafirmar en la infundada acusació que el Dr. Shaheed havia rebut suborns.
In response to a question about these allegations by a reporter from ISNA (the Iranian Students News Agency) on July 29, 2015, Mohammad Javad Larijani, Head of the Iranian Judiciary’s Human Rights Council, repeated the unsubstantiated claim that Dr. Shaheed had received bribes.