SocraticGadfly: Mousavi wants new Islamic Republic of Iran

June 21, 2009

Mousavi wants new Islamic Republic of Iran

That’s the bottom line of Iranian presidential challenger Mir Mousavi’s Statement No. 5:
We are not up against our sacred regime and its legal structures; this structure guards our Independence, Freedom, and Islamic Republic. We are up against the deviations and deceptions and we want to reform them; a reformation that returns us to the pure principles of the Islamic Revolution.

He said this after saluting the memory of Khomenei, saying the original message of 1979 (I’m assuming he’s omitting the secularist part of that) was “so pleasant,” and more.

So, if the West should agree with him on nullifying the election, what do we expect from him? How strict of an intrusion of Shia hadith does he expect into daily Iranian life? More, the same, or fewer freedoms for women?

And, that’s why President Obama was right Wednesday when he said there’s not necessarily that much difference between Mousavi and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

So, once again to the idiotic Juan Coles and Andrew Sullivans of the world on this issue: Know who you’re supporting before blindly supporting them.

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