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Here’s my take on this..... The ONLY REASON we’re not going through what the Iranian people are right NOW, this minute, is the Second Amendment. It will have to be up to these people to win their freedom, just like our founders did. And, if and when they do, they need to write their own Constitution, and include in it a Bill of Rights.

Here’s some info on Mir-Hossein Mousavi. Seems like he was a hardliner in his own day. I really don’t see a change, except for the name. However, it’s none of my business. These people need to start solving some of their own problems.

http://spectator.org/blog/2009/06/12/the-radical-roots-of-irans-ref/print

(SNIP) “The Radical Roots of Iran’s “Reformist”
By Philip Klein on 6.12.09 @ 3:41PM

The media has been eager to portray President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s chief rival in today’s Iranian elections as a “reformist” candidate, but a survey of Mir Hussein Moussavi’s record shows him to be yet another radical.

As prime minister during the 1980s, Moussavi was routinely described as a “militant” and “hard-liner” in press accounts. He celebrated Islamists’ seizure of of the U.S. Embassy, backed the Supreme Leader’s call for author Salman Rushdie’s murder, and had ties to Lebanese terrorist goup Hezbollah. He has been quoted as referring to America as “the Great Satan” and to Israel as a “cancerous tumor.”

A Nexis search of old reports from the New York Times yielded these descriptions of Moussavi (I’ve placed the dates in parentheses):

“...Prime Minister Mir Hussein Moussavi, one of the Iranian regime’s most severe militants.” (Feb. 17, 1989)

“Iran’s Prime Minister, Mir Hussein Moussavi, a prominent member of the militant wing in the Iranian leadership who has opposed economic liberalization at home and political openings to the West, added his voice today to the growing current of combativeness in Iran.” (Feb. 22, 1989)

“Another prominent hard-liner was also left off the new Cabinet list: Mir Hussein Moussavi, the current Prime Minister...”(Aug. 20, 1989)

In the Feb. 22 story I cited above, it says, Moussavi “asserted that Ayatollah Khomeini’s orders to kill Mr. Rushdie for what Iranian fundamentalists say is the blaspheming of Islam in his book ‘The Satanic Verses’ would be carried out, according to a Teheran radio broadcast monitored by the Associated Press in Nicosia.”

On October 9, 1981, the Times spoke to Moussavi, and he addressed the seizure of the U.S. Embassy:

In the interview, Mr. Moussavi said Westerners in general and Americans in particular also had difficulty understanding why Iran held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days. The hostage affair served the revolution’s purpose, the Foreign Minister said.

‘’It was the beginning of the second stage of our revolution,’’ after the overthrow of the Shah, Mr. Moussavi said. ‘’It was after this that we rediscovered our true Islamic identity.’’

More info;

http://www.nowpublic.com/world/who-mir-hossein-mousavi-history-irans-opposition-leader

Yeah, he’s a “freedom fighter” to get behind. Sheesh.