Friday, July 17, 2009

Iran's Mousavi to show at prayers

Mir Hossein Mousavi speaks to supporters at a feat in Tehran on 15/6/09

Iran's contestant leaders are making a open attendance at weekday prayers for the prototypal time since the disputed vote.

This comes amid warnings from the intelligence rector against motion the occurrence into a oppose and or "stage for undesirable scenes".

Mir Hossein Mousavi, the defeated statesmanly candidate, is making his prototypal authorised open appearance.

Former President calif Akbar Rafsanjani also gives his prototypal address since the post-election unrest.

Meanwhile, Persia has declared a newborn atomic honcho mass the despair on Thursday of Gholam Reza Aghazadeh.

Ali Akbar Salehi, Iran's former envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), module take up the post, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's polity announced.

It is not immediately clear why Mr Aghazadeh, the long-serving head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation, stood down from the job, but he is said to be close to Mr Mousavi.

'Protecting rights'

Mir Hossein Mousavi said on his website on weekday that he would listen the weekday Prayers at Tehran University - a weekly event that is attended by thousands and programme springy to the nation.

Iranian nuclear honcho steps downFile picture of Gholam Reza Aghazadeh

His fellow pro-reform statesmanly politician Mehdi Karroubi is also due to attend.

It is also the prototypal time in digit months since Mr Rafsanjani has led the prayers.

Mr Rafsanjani is a dominating obligate in Iranian persuasion and a rival of President Ahmadinejad.

Although he did not vocalise his instrument during the unrest that followed the election, members of his family - including his daughter Faezeh - openly based Mr Mousavi.

This could be a key moment in the confrontation between President Ahmadinejad's polity and members of the opposition, BBC Tehran correspondent Jon Leyne says.

They are inactivity to hear from Mr Rafsanjani, but no-one knows whether he module support the contestant or substance a compromise, our correspondent says.

Intelligence Minister Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejehi on Thursday urged the "wise Iranian people" to be "vigilant that the weekday prayers not be overturned into a initiate for undesirable scenes".

Violent street protests poor discover in Persia amid accusations of humbug after President Ahmadinejad was re-elected in the 12 June election.

At small 20 grouping died and hundreds were inactive in the life that followed the poll.

The country's most senior semipolitical figure, Supreme Leader Ayatollah calif Khamenei, upheld Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's landslip victory and demanded an modify to protest.

Despite this, Mr Mousavi has remained defiant - rigorous a re-run of the balloting and describing the newborn polity as illegitimate.

Announcing his selection to listen weekday prayers, Mr Mousavi said on his website, "I feel obligated to respond to the call of companions on the line to protecting rights to a exalted and liberated life".
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