As the Iranian authorities warned the opposition on Tuesday that they would tolerate no further protests over the disputed June 12 presidential elections, a report emerged of the hangings of six supporters of defeated candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi.
Speaking after Iran’s top legislative body upheld the election victory of incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, sources in Iran told this reporter in a telephone interview that the hangings took place in the holy city of Mashhad on Monday. There was no independent confirmation of the report.
Underlining the climate of fear among direct and even indirect supporters of Mousavi’s campaign for the election to be annulled, the sources also reported that a prominent cleric gave a speech to opposition protesters in Teheran earlier this week in which he publicly acknowledged that the very act of speaking at the gathering would likely cost him his life.
“Ayatollah Hadi Gafouri said that the Imam [Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini] never wanted [current supreme Leader] Ali Khamenei to succeed him. He even went to say that the Islamic republic died the day the Imam did,” one source said.
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Updates:
2:51 pm EDT, July 1st, 2009 — Iran ‘disqualifies’ EU from talks
6:45 pm EDT, July 1st, 2009 — Iranian Government Says Neda Soltan’s Murder Was ‘Staged’
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True patriot love in all thy sons command.
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We’ve got idiots in this country screaming bloody murder about the brutal, inhumane, abusive treatment of cows at the Calgary Stampede. i wonder where these jackasses stand on this issue?
‘Ere we go …