Sunday November 22, 2009
Iran's Mousavi tells government to stop intimidation
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi said the government should stop intimidating people to try and change their political views, a reformist website reported on Sunday.
"The government should not intimidate people to change their path ... this movement will continue and we are ready to pay any price," Mousavi was quoted as saying by his Kaleme website.
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EDITORS' NOTE: Reuters and other foreign media are subject to Iranian restrictions on their ability to film or take pictures in Tehran. Iranian opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi (L) meets with pro-reform cleric Mehdi Karoubi in Tehran in this October 12, 2009 file photo. (REUTERS/Stringer/Files) |
Mousavi's remarks preceded a scheduled gathering on Sunday by moderates to commemorate the killing of a dissident nationalist couple, stabbed to death by "rogue" agents in 1998.
Iran's security forces have warned the opposition not to take part in "street riots", trying to avoid a revival of street protests that erupted after Iran's June 12 presidential vote.
The turmoil after the election was the worst in Iran since its 1979 Islamic revolution. Authorities deny vote-rigging and portrayed the unrest as a foreign-backed bid to undermine the Islamic state. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won a second term.
The killing of Dariush Forouhar and his wife, who headed the illegal but tolerated Iran Nation Party, and at least two other secularist figures around the same time in the killing of dissidents, outraged Iranian society.
Security forces clashed with people in the past years at their memorial services, which turned to opposition rallies.
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