Did the Supreme Leader Get to Mousavi?--Iran's Mousavi Not Calling for Saturday Protest

[tekisui]

Source: Reuters

TEHRAN, June 19 (Reuters) - Defeated Iranian presidential election candidate Mirhossein Mousavi has not called on his supporters to stage new street protests on Saturday, an ally told Reuters on Friday.

The ally, who declined to be named, spoke after Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issued a strong warning to leaders of mass street protests after a June 12 disputed presidential election that they would be responsible for any bloodshed.

At a demonstration in the capital on Thursday, Mousavi's supporters carried banners saying they would gather again in downtown Tehran on Saturday afternoon.

http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSDAH955808

[librechik]

1. duh

they're on the same team.

There is no real democracy in Iran.

(or here, for that matter)

[tekisui]

2. I am under this impression, too.

I am curious to see how it plays out. But, if that is the case, why did Moussavi hold rallies at all? Can they put a lid on these marches? Will the people turn their anger and frustration towards the theocrats in charge?

[KittyWampus]

3. I think Mousavi knows the limits of what he can and can't do personally & what his supporters

can do. He's played the game before and won.

Commentators whom I respect suggested there could be some real blood shed at the TOP, not just the civilians protesting.

[librechik]

4. If the 79 revolution is any measure, a little blood is the grease that the machine runs on

maybe they're just trying to extend the crisis--or maybe they have learned how to NOT do the bloody cycle.

we're about to find out.

[tekisui]

5. My concern is that since the brazen election fraud has stirred the people,

that the people will be shut down with blood in the streets.

[librechik]

6. yes of course

it is to be feared--and would be another disappointment about the course of progress in the 21st century.

[tabatha]

7. He has asked for a rooftop protest from 9pm to midnight ---

or so I read on a twitter post.

For the latest, check:

http://twitter.com/mousavi1388

IT has a link to an English translation of his site.

[OHdem10]

8. Yesterday there was a report on Cnn that the Supreme Leader

had instructed Mousavi that he must toe the line once he(SL)
made speech today.

We shall see

[Hannah Bell]

9. supreme leader called for a day of unity, that's why.

[tabatha]

10. Actually, check this:

http://twitter.com/iranelection09

WOW Mousavi is risking his life now by going ahead with the Saturday protests at 4pm from Enghelab Sq. to Azadi Sq Tehran #iranelection


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'To sum up Khamenei's speech for those who don't have patience 2 hear blathering nonsense "you're either with us or against us"'