The seven-year house arrest of Iran’s Green Movement leaders appears to be coming to an end, according to Iranian media reports.

Hossein Karroubi, the son of Mehdi Karroubi, told Ensaf News that an “informed source” within the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) has approved to lift the house arrests of Mehdi Karroubi, Mir Hossein Mousavi and Zahra Rahnavard. Karroubi and Mousavi were the Reformist candidates in the 2009 election. They accused then incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of committing election fraud in his re-election and called for street protests, causing the most serious challenge to the Islamic Republic since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. They were put under house arrest in February 2011, though without ever being charged in a court of law.

According to the SNSC vote to release them, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has 10 days to express an opinion on the matter, otherwise the decision will hold. It is not clear what date the official lifting of the house arrest will take place, but some have reported that it could be on the Islamic holiday Eid al-Adha, Aug. 20.

Hossein Karroubi told Jamaran News, which is close to Reformists, that First Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri had initiated the issue at the SNSC. He said that Jahangiri’s previous comments about a “gathering of the symbolic figures and forming unity in the country” was a reference to the house arrests being addressed at the SNSC.