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Hussein Mousavi

Mousavi @ "Islamic Association of Teachers" (Video) موسوی @ "انجمن اسلامی معلمان"

Posted Fri, 2009-07-31 09:18 by IRelec09

Mousavi @ Teachers' Association / موسوی @ "انجمن اسلامی معلمان"

Monday 27 July 2009 Mr. Mousavi had a meeting with members of "Islamic Association of Teachers", and did a speech there after hearing them. دوشنبه 5 مرداد سخنرانی مهندس موسوی در جمع اعضای انجمن اسلامی فرهنگیان متن سخنرانی: http://ghalamnews.ir/news-21242.aspx

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Iranian State Media Condemn Mousavi, Protesters

Posted Sun, 2009-06-21 20:30 by IRelec09

Iranian State Media Condemn Mousavi, Protesters: Via Washington Post .

TEHRAN, June 21 -- Government media Sunday lashed out at opposition leader Mir Hussein Mousavi, suggesting that some of his actions were illegal and blaming terrorists for the deadly clashes here Saturday. But the former prime minister responded by strongly condemning the use of force against the protesters and urged his supporters to stay calm.

Mousavi, who maintains he was cheated of victory in the June 12 election over President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, argued in a posting on his banned newspaper's Web site that Iranians have the right to protest against fraud.

"The heart-rending news of the martyrdom of yet another group of protesters to the recent fraud in the elections put our nation in shock and sorrow," Mousavi wrote in the statement.
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Thousands Rally Across Globe for Iranian Protesters (VoA)

Posted Sat, 2009-06-20 21:35 by IRelec09

VOA News - Thousands Rally Across Globe for Iranian Protesters: Via Voice of America.

Iranians living overseas have joined the hundreds of thousands in Iran in protesting the outcome of the June 12 presidential elections that "officially" showed a landslide 63 percent vote for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the main challenger, Mir Hussein Mousavi, coming in a distant second. The Iranian diaspora has staged rallies in recent days in London, Stockholm and The Hague - and in France.

The rally was organized by the French based National Council of Resistance of Iran, or NCRI, which has a controversial reputation but is nonetheless considered one of the largest opposition groups outside Iran.

At a cavernous stadium near the Charles de Gaulle airport outside Paris, NCRI leader Maryam Rajavi called for the end of dictatorship in Iran and for a new regime that respects democracy and human rights.
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Iran boils over / Lee Sustar looks at the dynamics driving mass protests and repression in Iran

Posted Tue, 2009-06-16 01:11 by IRelec09

Iran boils over: Via SocialistWorker.org .

Lee Sustar looks at the dynamics driving mass protests and repression in Iran following the rigged presidential election.

IRAN WAS in uncharted political territory following mass protests against what was almost certainly a rigged presidential election victory for incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The long-festering divisions in the Iranian ruling class have become wide-open splits as the result of mass support for the reformist presidential candidate, Mir Hussein Mousavi.

A vicious police crackdown on demonstrations in the capital city of Tehran was accompanied by the arrest of more than 130 prominent Mousavi supporters--including Mohammad Reza Khatami,
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