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Report: Defeated Ahmadinejad rival arrested in Iran
Jewish Journal ^ | 13 June 2009 | Yossi Melman

Posted on 06/13/2009 2:40:28 PM PDT by Lorianne

Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi was reportedly arrested Saturday following the reformist’s defeat at the polls by hardliner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Supporters of Mousavi, the main challenger to Ahmadinejad, responded to the election with the most serious unrest in Tehran in a decade and charged that the result was the work of a dictatorship.

Mousavi’s arrest was reported by an unofficial source, according to whom the presidential hopeful was arrested en route to the home of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Read the full story at HAARETZ.com.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ahmadinejad; dictaqtors; iran; mousavi
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To: Lorianne
Ahmadinejad arrests opposition candidate

Don't give the 1960s Marxist-Alinsky street rabble and their ideological issue (including Obama) more ideas!

21 posted on 06/13/2009 3:26:14 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: 43north
Last I heard, he was touring with wife and daughter, bashing Sarah Palin.
22 posted on 06/13/2009 3:27:37 PM PDT by Friendofgeorge ( Yes I Love Sarah Palin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: Lorianne

Twitter is full of rumors (of course) but people are saying there will be a national strike in Iran on Tuesday. Will just have to see.


23 posted on 06/13/2009 3:30:42 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Obama. Clear and Pres__ent Danger.)
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To: Lorianne

Interesting site:

http://tehranbureau.com/2009/06/13/alerts-from-tehran/


24 posted on 06/13/2009 3:34:08 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Obama. Clear and Pres__ent Danger.)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

Mousavi letter to the people (in English):

http://ow.ly/dWZ8


25 posted on 06/13/2009 3:35:46 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Obama. Clear and Pres__ent Danger.)
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To: Lorianne

This must be a new definition of “robust debate.”


26 posted on 06/13/2009 3:36:15 PM PDT by Nosterrex
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To: Lorianne

Good thing obozo outlawed torture.

Pray for America


27 posted on 06/13/2009 3:39:55 PM PDT by bray (Time to Stand Up)
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To: 43north
Anyone seen Juan McCain lately?

You are just trying to get our hopes up, aren't you?

28 posted on 06/13/2009 3:45:39 PM PDT by Wil H (The most destructive act of Muslim terrorism against the US was paying for 0bama's Harvard education)
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To: cookcounty
It's from Ha'aretz, one of the two leading newspapers in Israel.....they have a good record for accuracy in the Middle East.

Thanks, I stand corrected.
It sounds like a non-typical BS rumor...

29 posted on 06/13/2009 3:50:47 PM PDT by Riodacat (Legum servi sumus ut liberi esse possimus.)
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To: Houghton M.

It must be the joos..


30 posted on 06/13/2009 4:26:40 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Barack the Messiah: Never in the field of US politics have so many waited so long for so little.)
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To: Lorianne

Mousavi-Gore?


31 posted on 06/13/2009 5:16:27 PM PDT by GoldStandard
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To: B-Chan
Gee, I never saw that coming...

No kidding...

32 posted on 06/13/2009 5:23:10 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (BG x 2)
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To: Lorianne
One thing you have to know about Iran, that it is 50% ethnic Persian and 50% minorities: Azeris, Arabs, Turkmen, Armenians, Kurds and others. This has the potential to spin out of control.

However, the dissidents have been wrong in predicting that last 4 uprisings, which didn't occur.

33 posted on 06/13/2009 6:27:31 PM PDT by Jabba the Nutt (Are they insane, stupid or just evil?)
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To: Lorianne

Barak said he is excited about the robust debate over the election in Iran.


34 posted on 06/13/2009 7:27:33 PM PDT by lucias_clay (Its times like this I'm glad I'm a whig.)
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To: Lorianne

Brilliant move (being sarcastic). His supporters will go through the roof upon hearing about this. The riots will only intensify. Tyrants can’t subdue dissenters through more tyranny—that just makes the dissenters even angrier. Which is why all regimes fall sooner or later. It’s just a matter of time in Iran....


35 posted on 06/13/2009 8:49:33 PM PDT by G8 Diplomat (I'm learning Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, Pashtu, and Russian so someday you won't have to)
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To: Riodacat
It's from Ha'aretz, one of the two leading newspapers in Israel.....they have a good record for accuracy in the Middle East.

Well, I guess even Israels leading papers are not above coming up with bullshit reports.

36 posted on 06/14/2009 7:09:30 AM PDT by Riodacat (Legum servi sumus ut liberi esse possimus.)
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To: nuconvert; FARS

ping


37 posted on 06/14/2009 7:10:31 AM PDT by GOPJ (Main Stream Media (MSM) Renamed: Ministry of Truth (MOT) - -"Freedom is Slavery")
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