Posted on 06/18/2009 3:54:45 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
The moderate Iranian leader who says that he was robbed of victory in last week’s presidential election faces a fateful choice today: support the regime or be cast out.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme Leader, has told Mir Hossein Mousavi to stand beside him as he uses Friday prayers at Tehran University to call for national unity. An army of Basiji — Islamic volunteer militiamen — is also expected to be bussed in to support the Supreme Leader.
The demand was made at a meeting this week with representatives of all three candidates who claim that the poll was rigged, and it puts Mr Mousavi on the spot. He has become the figurehead of a popular movement that is mounting huge demonstrations daily against the “theft” of last Friday’s election by President Ahmadinejad, the ayatollah’s protégé.
Mr Mousavi, 67, is a creature of the political Establishment — a former revolutionary and prime minister who would like to liberalise Iranian politics but has never challenged the system in the way his followers are doing. It was unclear last night what he would do or even whether the protests would die away if he backed down. Yesterday tens of thousands of demonstrators packed into the Imam Khomeini Square in Tehran — named after the founder of the Islamic Republic — for another massive rally, this one to mourn protesters killed in Monday’s clashes with pro-government militias.
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Need eyes watching the Tweeter network..@iranelection
One young male demonstrator yelled at the camera - ‘WE WANT A SECULAR GOVERNMENT!’
This is NOT about Mousavi or the election.
This is about so much more.
Right—election results like that insult the intelligence. It would have been like Bush carrying EVERY precinct by a 2 to 1 margin in 2004. Every thinking Persian knows its NOW—or NEVER looking yourself in the mirror for letting these klutzes get away with it.
WARNING TO ALL US Inspector Generals........Obama is taking notes here. You guys need to toe the line or you will be cast out.
hospital source - severe shortage of blood supplies accross ALL Iran hospitals
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hospital source - severe shortage of blood supplies accross ALL Iran hospitals - pls donate blood - #Iranelection - RT RT RT
half a minute ago from web
Unless somebody feels obliged to take out corrupt Mullahs. Here in America we are in a similar position. Obama quietly builds his totalitarian government and readies his FEMA prison camps. Already he has ABC news on board with talking heads all lined up in the White House.
Talking heads like True Believer Georgie Stepalloverus will toe the line without pause for Obama.
Images Joseph Goebbels and Treblinka echo in my mind. Any doubts now about what is about to happen to your fundamental right of free speech _________ ? It will be shattered into a million pieces and cast to the winds. Just like ashes.
The Herald's street eye view of the protests in Tehran
And this:
There are also messages saying that is a bogus message...so I am not sure....
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DO NOT BELIEVE NO FRIDAY PRAYER REPORTS. THEY ARE LIES MOUSAVI WOULDN'T CUT HIS OWN THROAT #IRANELECTION #gr88
10 minutes ago from web
Be cool, or be cast out...
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Unless you SEE Mousavi say don't go, presume this is hack attempt on his facebook page.
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RT: @oxfordgirl: Unless you SEE Mousavi say don't go, presume this is hack attempt on his facebook page. Go to rally FRiday. #iranelection
1 minute ago from web
PersianKiwi also has Sea of Green will continue on Friday - time and location will be confirmed 1 hour before
From all this I'm guessing that the rebels will do their rally elsewhere from Khamenei's address, to show rejection of Khamenei's authority. Mousavi and the rebels know they will be "disappeared" if this quiets down. Like Julius Caesar, Mousavi has crossed the Rubicon, and knows it's now win or die.
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Serious confusion over rally: 1 trst source says no go (from Moussavi site) other trst source say go, Moussavi site hacked. #iranelection
1 minute ago from web
Real example of cyberwarfare.
For the reasons I posted in #34, I’m thinking these messages are disinformation from pro-government sources. The only reason to show up at a Khamenei-controlled venue is to make nice with Khamenei, and it’s too late for that. I think it’s Khamenei’s side trying to disrupt the rebellion.
“Let’s see some mullahs swinging from lampposts. That will be real revolution.”
That may come. I believe these protesters want something more than a cosmetic change at the near-top.
or be cast out? Wow, exiled from Iran... dang, that would JUST TERRIBLE.
;’)
Wow...he just told Musavi to shut it. Khamenei’s digging his own grave...this will only upset people more. They’re sick of the mullahs telling everyone what to do.
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