Iranian Candidate Issues Challenge

Yesterday, Mir Hossein Mousavi, the candidate who ran against President Ahmadinejad June 2009, issued a challenge to the government. On Wednesday and Thursday, supporters of the government demonstrated and shouted for his death.










Mousavi said he is willing to die in the effort to gain civic and religious rights for the Iranian people, and that he "has no fear of becoming one of the martyrs."

This move ups the ante in the increasingly tight maneuvers between Iran's theocratic and oppressive government and the contemporary-minded Iranian people. If the government arrests and execute's Mousavi, who knows what the people will do?

We can only wait and see what the government's next move will be.

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