Posted on 02/26/2011 7:16:37 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
(CNN) -- Iranian opposition leaders Mir Hossein Moussavi and Mehdi Karrubi and their wives were placed in a safe house for their own welfare, but they have not been arrested, Iranian government sources told CNN Saturday.
"The opposition movement is very much looking for martyrs so if this is true it's for their own safety," one source told CNN.
The pro-reform opposition movement "is always looking for an excuse to create something, so this may be done to keep someone from doing something to them," the source added.
But the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran expressed concern for the safety of the leaders and their wives.
"Moussavi and Karrubi and their wives have been disappeared; they are being held incommunicado in an unknown location, a severe breach of Iranian and international law," Aaron Rhodes, a spokesman for the campaign, said in a statement.
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For their own safety....riiight.....
Amazing how alike the Mullahs and democrats are,
they accuse their opponents of doing what they
would and are doing.
A safe house, like, with iron bars on the windows, to keep them safe from the marauding crowds out there? And concrete walls? And come to think of it iron bars on the wall between the room they’re in and the hallway? That kind of safe house?
“they have not been arrested,”
They just can’t go anywhere and can’t talk to anyone etc..
“A severe breach of Iranian & international law” ? lol, since when did the Iranian regime care about Iranian or international law??!! At best, they are selective in applying both. Kinda like how some of them interpret the Koran to support or refute their actions. Attacking a foreign embassy & holding those hostages with diplomatic immunity as the Iranians did 3 decades ago, was a breach of international law, wasn’t it?
Anyway, pro-reform Ayatollah Mohammad Khatami (former president of Islamic Republic 1997-2005), apparently, has urged the Iranian authorities to release Mousavi & Karroubi.
Noteworthy is this: “”Why should people like Mr Mousavi and Mr Karroubi, and their wives, who have had a glorious past in the revolution and the Islamic republic, and who are loyal to the revolution and the Islamic republic, be placed under house arrest?” Khatami said according to his Khatami.ir website.”
http://www.iranpressnews.net/english/source/093522.html
The plot thickens!
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