Moussavi won’t back down. Ahmadinejad can throw into him the gates of hell, in the shape of a police charge, but Moussavi and his supporters are standing their ground.
Today, protests were still going on in Tehran streets. But there was a new element in them. For the first time since the aftermath of the elections, the opposition leader, Moussavi, was inside one of those marches. He can end up in a prison, but it is that or losing the faith and the trust from all the young reformist voters that are backing him.
They needed it. They needed to know that Moussavi was, at least, behind them too. A letter sent last weekend to the people wasn’t enough. He had to show up. When he has done so, he was protected by tens of thousands of supporters.
After a week of clashes with the police forces, being hit and shot by them and dispersed with gas, finally a march has gone without -major- problems and police forces didn't do anything. Were they too many for a few officers or is it that the images of the police beaten the people is embarrassing them? Even local state controlled media is switching sides.
Too good to be true. In the end, rumors news point to shootings and at least, one dead by Basij, the pro-Government militia that kept Moussavi two days under house arrest.
Now it’s the turn for the high spheres of power. A popular showdown like this is difficult to ignore. Khamenei has already ordered to investigate the electoral fraud. There are some facts that simply don’t add up. Like Moussavi losing in his own town, in his own region. As Karim Sadjadpour of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace stated yesterday night on C-Span, it is “the equivalent of Barack Obama losing the African-American vote to John McCain in 2008. It just doesn’t add up.”
Meanwhile, Ahmadinejad is not alone celebrating his “victory”. Israel too is happy for the Persian neocon triumph. Something must be wrong when Ahmadinejad and Netanyahu cheer together. It just doesn’t add up.
Video: BBC
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Monday, June 15, 2009
Moussavi stands his ground
6/15/2009
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I can see a reason for Israel cheering on this victory. Israels needs an radical enemy as the current Iran to support his politicy. Without Iran's verbal harassment and call to removed Israel from the earth, the latter will be in a very week position to defend his actitudes with the rest of Arabic world , specially in Palestine. Times of being the victim would be over.
Thanks for your comment, Elessar. Yes, you are right. Extremists usually need each other to justify their violent policy, and that's what's happening with Israeli neocons and Ahmadinejad.
Cheers
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