Iranian Government Media Declares Mousavi a 'Criminal'

[JudyInTheHeartland]

Source: Washington Post

Iranian Government Media Declares Mousavi a 'Criminal'

By Thomas Erdbrink and William Branigin
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, June 21, 2009 2:07 PM

TEHRAN, June 21 -- Iranian government media Sunday launched a campaign against Mir Hussein Mousavi and his supporters, calling the leader of the protests over Iran's disputed election a "criminal" and comparing demonstrators to members of a hated terrorist group.

Mousavi, a former prime minister who charges that he was cheated of victory in the June 12 election over President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, warned late Saturday on his newspaper's Web site that "dangerous ways" lie ahead if people are not allowed to defend their rights peacefully. He said he and his followers do not oppose the Islamic Republic's system and structures but "are against deviation and lying, and we seek to reform that."

Iranian state television reported that 10 people died and more than 100 were injured Saturday when clashes broke out between security forces and protesters assembling for a pro-Mousavi rally that authorities had banned. First reports said as many as 13 people had died, but that was later reduced to 10. Foreign journalists have been banned from covering the protests.

The confrontation resulted in fiery chaos, as security forces blocked streets and used tear gas, water cannons and batons to break up the demonstration. Security forces were seen firing warning shots into the air, but there were also reports that several people were hit by gunfire.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/21/AR2009062100146_pf.html

[Marksbrother]

1. Iranian election was stolen but that doesn't happen here.

Pre-election polls showed Ahmadinejad would win the election just as the official results showed. Where's the evidence that

the results are fraudulent?

[GoesTo11]

2. Yeah. Mousavi is a traitor to the revolution.

They should make an example of him for making treasonous accusations without proof.

[ohio2007]

15. And to think the mullahs hand picked him on his "purity" rating nt

[CJCRANE]

3. AFAIK something like 42% of those contacted declined to be polled

and Ahmedinajad received less than 50% of those who were polled.

[ohio2007]

16. Need any more proof that the 42% are part of the 5th column movement ?

mullah tinfoil is flying.

I saw a an article that says the citizens are yelling alla ahkbar in the middle of the night.

sleep well rulers



MU HA ha ha ha ha haaaa

[EFerrari]

4. I am agnostic about the results but that poll was explained to me

as being taken before the campaign season even really started.

[OKNancy]

5. It doesn't matter. It's not about the election any more n/t

[Alameda]

6. What now? I wonder what the options are? Anyone know?

[Marksbrother]

7. Iran knows that the U.S. wants payback for the embassy

takeover, which was payback for the U.S. overthrowing the elected government of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq in the 1953 coup.

Therefore, Iran is surely taking security precautions to protect against additional U.S. hegemony in their country. It is believed

that the U.S. has spent approximately 400 million dollars very recently in operations designed to undermine the duly elected

government of Iran. Iran is also aware of the threats of the U.S. proxy Israel and has likewise taken appropriate cautions against

any potential attack from that country.

[MellowDem]

12. Oh, Supreme Leader, is that you?

Can I run in this election, please please please???

[FourScore]

8. Iranian State Media Condemn Mousavi, Protesters

Source: WashingtonPost

Government media Sunday lashed out at opposition leader Mir Hussein Mousavi, suggesting that some of his actions were illegal and blaming terrorists for the deadly clashes here Saturday. But the former prime minister responded by strongly condemning the use of force against the protesters and urged his supporters to stay calm.

Mousavi, who maintains he was cheated of victory in the June 12 election over President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, argued in a posting on his banned newspaper's Web site that Iranians have the right to protest against fraud.

"The heart-rending news of the martyrdom of yet another group of protesters to the recent fraud in the elections put our nation in shock and sorrow," Mousavi wrote in the statement.

"Shooting at the people, militarizing the city, scaring the people, provoking them, and displaying power are all the result of the unlawfulness we're witnessing today," Mousavi wrote. "How surprising it is that the people who instigate all this, accuse others of these very events..."

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/21/AR2009062100146_pf.html

[shireen]

9. Iranian state media can go to hell. nt

[C_U_L8R]

10. Every rightwing tyranny must have their very own Fox News

how special

[ohio2007]

17. Iranian State Media is the only brand of KOOL AID left reporting in Iran

oh YEAH!

[stlsaxman]

11. I read that Mousavi called for a general strike if arrested...

maybe that's next?

[ohio2007]

14. Saw a tweet saying he hopes to call for a general strike in the oil sector

The mullahs life blood that keeps the masses sedated. The mullahs can blame EU for the lack of refined products supply when the Iranians fail to fill orders of crude oil demands.


Are we willing to sacrifice and pay at the pump when the oil industries jump at the chance to use the threat to jack up the price here?

Hugo would love to be part of a speculative jump in crude.
jmo

[stlsaxman]

19. Hugo has done more to supply FREE heating oil and natural gas in THIS COUNTRY to poor families

than all the Big Oil companies EVER did over these last 5 winters.

Don't dis my boy Hugo!

ON EDIT- I just read Chavez saying we should respect the election outcome in Iran... okay- feel free to dis my boy... :hi:

Besides- Mousavi was calling for a work stoppage IN IRAN... has nothing to do with us.

[ohio2007]

21. Fewer are buying into Hugos dream amigo. Nothing is free

http://news.aol.com/main/obama-presidency/article/obama-chavez-summit/433039?icid=main|


oh, the polls are not scientific but at least people were only allowed to cast one vote ;)

Besides- Mousavi was calling for a work stoppage IN IRAN... has nothing to do with us.

You chose to cherry pick in order to hijack the thread ?
why is that ?



Your boy has serious issues ever since his oil fell below $90 bbl and stayed there
http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/02/06/2402285-venezuela-behind-on-payments-to-oil-contractors


I say again
he would blow a motherlode if a crises pushed it up to that "happy days are here again" level

[stlsaxman]

23. hijack a thread? dude- the title of the OP says "Mousavi"... NOT "Chavez".

I was responding to some fuck who brought up Hugo.

ON EDIT: oh- it was you, sorry! :shrug:

[ohio2007]

24. YOU stand corrected

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRvPoCWElOc&feature=related


getting harder for you to defend the fucktard isn't it

[stlsaxman]

25. so now you're calling ME a nazi/fascist?

:shrug:

[ohio2007]

27. You are becomming an army of one....OK maybe three supporters are left but

you obviously deny the writing on the wall.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=3933227&mesg_id=3933227

so now you're calling ME a nazi/fascist?

You are begining to think maybe Hugo is a fascist ? He considers the mullahs "election' fair

Iran's Guards to 'crush' protests

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3933575





in case you couldn't open the link I posted showing the "unscientific" poll data;

What's your opinion of Venezuela's Hugo Chavez?
Mostly negative 79%
Neutral 14%
Mostly positive 7%

Total Votes: 355,640




What do you think of the friendly encounters between Chavez and President Barack Obama at the summit?
They trouble me 50%
They're fine by me 37%
I have mixed feelings 13%

Total Votes: 372,842



Would you like to see the United States have a closer relationship with Venezuela?
No 45%
Yes 40%
I have mixed feelings 15%

Total Votes: 263,280


http://news.aol.com/main/obama-presidency/article/obama-chavez-summit/433039?icid=main

Some day,

you'll figure it out ;)

[stlsaxman]

29. go fuck yourself.

[ohio2007]

30. `

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UnXP89jlcc&feature=player_embedded

[stlsaxman]

31. stlsaxman weeps.

seriously- that was lovely. thank you, ohio2007.

[ohio2007]

13. "The righteous rise with burning eyes of hatred and ill will

mad men feed on fear and lies

to bleed and burn and kill

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gHKNwpny9o

[ohio2007]

18. Imprisoned Iranian Journalists and Politicians ( partial list )

http://tehranbureau.com/list-imprisoned-iranian-journalists-politicians/

[janx]

20. Thanks for this list!

:hi:

[ohio2007]

22. its just the start imo nt

[bdamomma]

26. the Iranian government is not too paranoid huh?

to imprison reporters from the truth coming out huh? :sarcasm:

[ohio2007]

28. I suspect they are hearing voicesin their heads by now

maybe not