Posted on 07/01/2009 9:52:16 AM PDT by wk4bush2004
Iran's embattled opposition leader urged his supporters Wednesday to keep pressing for their rights, and the country's reformist ex-president denounced what he called the regime's "velvet coup" against those contesting the outcome of last month's presidential election.
Mir Hossein Mousavi said he considered Iran's cleric-led government illegitimate, and he demanded that it release all political prisoners and institute electoral reforms and press freedoms, while former President Mohammad Khatami lashed out at what he termed "a poisonous security situation" in the wake of violent street protests.
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Oh, you mean in Iran — I thought the Iranian was talking about Minnesota.
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