World: Mousavi under intense amounts of pressure to stop fighting Iran vote
- I am pressured to abandon my demand for the vote annulment … a major rigging has happened … I am prepared to prove that those behind the rigging are responsible for the bloodshed … Continuation of legal and calm protests will guarantee achieving our goals.
- Mir Hossein Mousavi • On the protests that continue despite much fighting by the leadership and his hand being forced to give up the protests. Beyond the protests, Mousavi was the managing editor of the Kalameh-ye Sabz daily newspaper, which was forced to close this week. He’s not happy about that at all. The protests have been slowed greatly because of increased police presence but the protracted fight has had the side effect of showing massive rifts within the Iranian establishment. • source