Iran Basij militia wants Mousavi's head to roll!!!
Thursday, July 2, 2009
, Posted by panicbeats at 4:59 AM
Well looks like Ahmadinejad's goons are going in after Mousavi
Iran's opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi today became the target of the notorious Basij militia as it called for him to be prosecuted for his role in the greatest political unrest in Iran since the Islamic revolution.
In a letter to the country's chief prosecutor, the Basij accuse Mousavi of involvement in nine offences against the state, including "disturbing the nation's security". That charge carries a maximum 10-year prison sentence.
The letter came as the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, cancelled a planned trip to Libya without explanation. The last-minute cancellation is being seen as a sign of the continuing volatility in Iran as the authorities struggle with the fallout from last month's disputed election, in which Ahmadinejad was declared the winner.
One of the other candidates, Mehdi Karroubi, a reformist cleric, vowed to continue his fight to annul the election despite the endorsement of the poll by the powerful guardian council after a partial recount of the vote.
"I don't consider this government legitimate," Karroubi said on his website.
It was later reported that the daily Etemad-e-Melli, a newspaper allied to him, had been closed down.
In his statement Karroubi also demanded the release of "thousands" of people arrested during the unrest.
Iran's police chief, Brigadier General Ismail Ahmadi-Moghaddam, said 1,032 people had been arrested since the 12 June election, but he claimed that most had since been released.
"Those who are still in detention were referred to the public and revolutionary courts in Tehran," Fars News Agency quoted him as saying, according to Reuters.
Ahmadi-Moghaddam said 20 "rioters" had been killed during the unrest and more than 500 police had been injured.
He also asked Interpol to arrest Arash Hejazi, the doctor who was filmed coming to the aid of Neda Soltan after she was shot in the widely seen video of her death.
Hejazi fled to London after the incident and suggested that a Basij militiaman on a motorbike was responsible for her killing.
"Her killing was a planned scenario and had no relation with the riots in Tehran," Ahmadi-Moghaddam said.
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