We Will Gradually Get Rid of Our Stutters

In his latest remarks, Mir-Hossein Mousavi noted that “The Iranian people’s green movement has brought compassion and closeness among different sectors of society,” adding, “With all our differences of opinion, beliefs, cultures and ethnicities, we will gradually cease to stutter and will converse with one another with more ease.” The green movement leader, who was meeting with family members of the veterans of the Iran-Iraq war, also commented on the complaint filed by seven senior members of the Mosharekat and Mojahedin of Islamic Revolution parties against the “illegal interference” of military and intelligence officers in the 2009 presidential election, noting, “Those who are complaining of accusations against them are taken to prison and the accuser and institutions supporting him remain beyond the judiciary’s reach.”

Criticizing the divisions among political factions on the basis of “wrong policies,” Mousavi said, “The political factions that were previously divided as a result of wrongful policies, are now gradually coming closer to each other. They negotiate with each other and sit around the same table. What brings them together is their struggle for freedom, justice and reaching an understanding to protect the rights of the nation. The barriers that separate outsider and insider are gradually fading away and instead there is interaction and dialogue.”

Mousavi continued, “The corrupt movements that today ridicule sacred religious beliefs in cyberspace are rooted in the billions of Tomans (about 1000 Toman bring in a US Dollar in the open market) spent in the name of cyber warfare and the cyber army. In the same way that they transferred the national media into divisive and one-sided outlets with their meddling, they now want to contaminate the green movement’s cyber presence with their viruses in order to weaken our Islamic nation’s trust in this beautiful window of opportunity that has been opened, but this conspiracy will have a reverse effect.”

The former prime minister added, “The regime is now unable to create the necessary changes within itself according to global and domestic changes, and this is natural, because the most effective element for achieving the desired changes is the people’s involvement in all affairs and a respect for their right to determine their destiny and their rights as citizens. Even old political treatises equated oppression to destruction.”

In another part of his speech, Mr. Mousavi criticized the incarceration of “the country’s freedom-seeking and resistant children,” comparing Iran’s modern-day prisons with the dungeons of infamous Abbasid caliphs Mansour Davanighi and Harun al-Rashid.

Mousavi was referring to Mohsen Aminzadeh, Behzad Nabavi, Mostafa Tajzadeh, Abdollah Ramezanzadeh, Feizollah Arabsorkhi, Mohsen Safaei-Farahani, and Mohsen Mirdamadi, seven senior members of the Mosharekat and Mojahedin of Islamic Revolution who filed a complaint against military and intelligence officials for their illegal interference in the June 2009 presidential election. Mostafa Tajzadeh and Mohsen Safaei-Farahani, who were awarded temporary releases, have since been returned to prison.

In the end, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, who continues to protest the tenth election results along with Mehdi Karoubi, said, “it is the people’s votes that can save the country from its current crisis and return energy and liveliness to the public.”