Iran's Mousavi calls for purge of "lies"

[Turborama]

Source: Reuters

Opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi said the Islamic Republic must be purged of what he called lies and dishonesty, sending out a direct challenge to conservative rulers after a week of unrest in Iran.

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Mousavi, focus of the biggest protests since the Islamic Revolution ousted the U.S.-backed Shah in 1979, said elections that delivered an overwhelming victory to hardline anti-Western President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad were fraudulent and must be annulled. He said the fraud was months in the planning.

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"We are not against the Islamic system and its laws but against lies and deviations and just want to reform it," he said in a statement on his website at the end of a tumultuous day.

He said if authorities refused to allow peaceful protests they would face the "consequences" -- an apparent rejoinder to Khamenei's warning that opposition leaders would be held responsible for any bloodshed resulting from protests.

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[Jefferson23]

1. Talk about brave, the people on the street of Iran have my deepest respect.

[Oregone]

2. For all the armchair revolutionaries here, please read this point:

"We are not against the Islamic system and its laws but against lies and deviations and just want to reform it,"

This whole revolt isn't about fixing their broken theocracy. Its just about installing new assholes. And kids are dying over this shit