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Khamenei tells Mousavi to toe the line over election or be cast out
Times UK ^ | June 19, 2009 | Ella Flaye in Tehran, Catherine Philp and Martin Fletcher

Posted on 06/18/2009 3:54:45 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach

The moderate Iranian leader who says that he was robbed of victory in last week’s presidential election faces a fateful choice today: support the regime or be cast out.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme Leader, has told Mir Hossein Mousavi to stand beside him as he uses Friday prayers at Tehran University to call for national unity. An army of Basiji — Islamic volunteer militiamen — is also expected to be bussed in to support the Supreme Leader.

The demand was made at a meeting this week with representatives of all three candidates who claim that the poll was rigged, and it puts Mr Mousavi on the spot. He has become the figurehead of a popular movement that is mounting huge demonstrations daily against the “theft” of last Friday’s election by President Ahmadinejad, the ayatollah’s protégé.

Mr Mousavi, 67, is a creature of the political Establishment — a former revolutionary and prime minister who would like to liberalise Iranian politics but has never challenged the system in the way his followers are doing. It was unclear last night what he would do or even whether the protests would die away if he backed down. Yesterday tens of thousands of demonstrators packed into the Imam Khomeini Square in Tehran — named after the founder of the Islamic Republic — for another massive rally, this one to mourn protesters killed in Monday’s clashes with pro-government militias.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: iran; iranviolence2009; khamenei; mousavi; studentmovement
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1 posted on 06/18/2009 3:54:46 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: G8 Diplomat; NormsRevenge; Marine_Uncle; SolidWood

News ping


2 posted on 06/18/2009 3:55:58 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (Support Geert Wilders)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

This is why I don’t care about what’s going on in Iran: it doesn’t matter if Ahmadinejad or Mousavi wins, because the mullahs are still in control.

Let’s see some mullahs swinging from lampposts. That will be real revolution.


3 posted on 06/18/2009 3:56:39 PM PDT by Terpfen (Ain't over yet, folks. Those 2004 Senate gains are up for grabs in 2 years.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Khamenei tells Mousavi to toe the line over election or be cast out

Is the unrest in Iran right now really going to be quelled because Mousavi falls in line? Seems like a lot of Iranians are objecting to the ayatollahs, not the fact that Mousavi was robbed.
4 posted on 06/18/2009 3:57:09 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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fyi


5 posted on 06/18/2009 3:59:10 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (Support Geert Wilders)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Maybe Khamenei tells Mousavi that he won the vote, but he lost the election, so shut up!


6 posted on 06/18/2009 4:00:15 PM PDT by rawhide
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fyi

Could get bloody!

7 posted on 06/18/2009 4:00:40 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (Support Geert Wilders)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Democrats are taking notes for 2010...


8 posted on 06/18/2009 4:00:45 PM PDT by darkwing104 (Lets get dangerous)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Cast out?


9 posted on 06/18/2009 4:01:47 PM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com <----go there now,----> tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

I’m beginning to think this is the real deal -and that’s scary for the Iranians in the streets.

Godspeed to all those who fight for freedom..


10 posted on 06/18/2009 4:03:11 PM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Maybe they’re thinking of exiling him to Paris. Of course, that didn’t work out so well 30 years ago...


11 posted on 06/18/2009 4:05:40 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

I believe it was Michael Ledeen who said on an interview, that Mousavi has only two options left to him now,

Get enough people behind him to pull this off.....

or die.


12 posted on 06/18/2009 4:05:49 PM PDT by digger48
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To: Terpfen
This is why I don’t care about what’s going on in Iran: it doesn’t matter if Ahmadinejad or Mousavi wins, because the mullahs are still in control.

Yeah, but enough popular anger has been put into motion that it might end up challenging the mullah's control of the country.

13 posted on 06/18/2009 4:05:51 PM PDT by dirtboy
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Is it going to be like Surivor? “I’m sorry, Mir, the tribe has spoken”

Is it like the Garden of Eden? Will there be some angel with a flaming sword east of Tehran?


14 posted on 06/18/2009 4:05:53 PM PDT by jeltz25
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

The people are telling Khamenei to tow the line or be cast out.


15 posted on 06/18/2009 4:06:17 PM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

So the slaves are fighting over the scraps off the tyrants table instead of going after the tyrants themselves...

How every tyrant keeps themselves in power...


16 posted on 06/18/2009 4:09:58 PM PDT by DB
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To: dirtboy

I’ll believe it when I see it.


17 posted on 06/18/2009 4:12:43 PM PDT by Terpfen (Ain't over yet, folks. Those 2004 Senate gains are up for grabs in 2 years.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Looks like Khamenei wants to cool this down and Mousavi realizes that he's in the position of the man holding the tiger's ears -- whatever you do, don't let go.

Mousavi CAN'T make nice at this point. It's gone too far. There's too much bad blood regarding the Basijis. The pro-Ahmadinejad faction among the mullahs is scared.

If this quiets down, the rebel leadership will be quietly "disappeared" at leisure.

18 posted on 06/18/2009 4:18:51 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money -- Thatcher)
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Me too, but that is the main hope for me. The young folks have got to be getting sick of the mullahs.


19 posted on 06/18/2009 4:19:21 PM PDT by dirtboy
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To: AnotherUnixGeek
Is the unrest in Iran right now really going to be quelled because Mousavi falls in line? Seems like a lot of Iranians are objecting to the ayatollahs, not the fact that Mousavi was robbed.

The mullahs and the Revolutionary Guard run Iran for their own profit. They don't want to give up the sweet deal they have. But the people are getting fed up over being poor so that the ruling elite can stay rich, and it's past the boiling point -- something for us to study, with the way DC has been pissing away our wealth and future.

20 posted on 06/18/2009 4:22:35 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money -- Thatcher)
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