Los Angeles Times
Reporting from Beirut — Iran's leading opposition figure today called on his supporters to continue acts of peaceful civil disobedience in his first major communiqué in weeks. Mir Hossein Mousavi also demanded that authorities launch an independent probe of Iran's disputed presidential elections and punish those who allegedly abused protesters and detainees in the unrest afterward.
"We shouldn't leave any stone unturned and live up to our commitments in our struggle against cheaters and liars," he said in a statement published to his news website, Kalamenews.com. "In pursuing our cause we should brave all the accusations, and we shouldn't duck any act of courage or daring." Mousavi, a former prime minister, ran and lost against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a June 12 election marred by allegations of massive vote rigging that continue to roil the nation. Though Mousavi's deputies have been hauled before televised mass tribunals for questioning the results and his allies threatened with arrest by the Revolutionary Guard, he has remained unbowed.
The statement came two days after parliament voted to mostly approve a Cabinet of hard-line loyalists to Ahmadinejad, disappointing opposition figures who had hoped the battered president would be further weakened in a lengthy brawl over the formation of his government. (Read more...)
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