Report: Defeated Ahmadinejad rival arrested in Iran

Jewish Journal ^ | 13 June 2009 | Yossi Melman

[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.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Ahmadinejad arrests opposition candidate

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

[Friendofgeorge]

Last I heard, he was touring with wife and daughter, bashing Sarah Palin.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

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.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Interesting site:

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

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Mousavi letter to the people (in English):

http://ow.ly/dWZ8

[Nosterrex]

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

[bray]

Good thing obozo outlawed torture.

Pray for America

[Wil H]

Anyone seen Juan McCain lately?

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

[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.

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

[Kid Shelleen]

It must be the joos..

[GoldStandard]

Mousavi-Gore?

[Brad’s Gramma]

Gee, I never saw that coming...

No kidding...

[Jabba the Nutt]

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.

[lucias_clay]

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

[G8 Diplomat]

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....

[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.

[GOPJ]

ping