Iran's Mousavi defies crackdown

[Turborama]

Source: BBC

Iran protest leader Mir Hossein Mousavi says he holds those behind alleged "rigged" elections responsible for bloodshed during recent protests.

In a defiant statement on his website, he called for future protests to be in a way which would not "create tension." He complained of "complete" restrictions on his access to people and a crackdown on his media group.

A BBC correspondent in Tehran says the statement is a direct challenge to Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei.

"I won't refrain from securing the rights of the Iranian people... because of personal interests and the fear of threats," Mr Mousavi said on the website of his newspaper, Kalameh. Those who violated the election process "stood beside the main instigators of the recent riots and shed people's blood on the ground", Mr Mousavi said, pledging to show how they were involved.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8118783.stm

[billyoc]

1. He's got balls, that's for sure.

The die is cast, IMO, both he and Khnmenei can't survive. It's one or the other.

[ohio2007]

2. ...but the theocrats that hand picked him will put his ass in Evian if he keeps pushing. nt

[MADem]

4. He's already under house arrest.

Evin is the prision, Evian is the water! I'm guessing he'd prefer the latter, if it were a swimming pool and not a waterboarding.....

Evin was a frigging spa during Shah days compared to what it is now. The population of the place has increased tenfold from the Shah era. This regime has even more "enemies of the state" than the last one did.

[Soylent Brice]

5. two men enter, one man leave.

[MADem]

3. The idea is to shop but not buy.

Bring the bazaar to a halt. If the bazaaris aren't making money, they'll abandon Ahmadi in a heartbeat. Khamenei needs to go, and he needs to take that little snake Ahmadi with him.