Mousavi says Iran needs 'deep change' - his website

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VOTE RIGGING: Mirhossein Mousavi has always maintained that the Iranian Presidential election vote was rigged. (Getty Images)

Iranian opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi said on Wednesday that the condition of the country's prisons showed that Iran needed a "deep change", his website reported.

"What happens in Iran's prisons these days clearly shows the necessity of a deep change in the country," the Ghalamnews quoted Mousavi as saying. "Could America harm Iran ... as much as these events in prisons have damaged the (1979 Islamic) revolution and the country?" he asked.

Defeated presidential candidate Mehdi Karoubi wrote on his website on Sunday he had been told by senior officials that some young men and women detained after post-election protests had been raped in jail.

Iran's police chief had previously acknowledged that some detainees had been tortured. (Reuters)

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Who doesn't want peace?
Posted by Jack Black on Thursday 13 August 2009 at 09:20 UAE time


I must agree with Mr. Mirhossein Mousavi on this one. Not only Iran, also the entire Middle Eastern view of the west. If the west is really that bad, heck, “America would have annex Canada by now and invaded Mexico”, like what Saddam tried to do, Hitler did not stop at Poland, do you think Saddam will with Kuwait? It should not take 60 or a hundred years of our history to forget that the west has taken a very difficult task of enforcing the integral laws of the world. Even if how small our voices are; we can be heard now. The world is not perfect ladies and gentlemen but we must try to make it so. We must try to do not only what we think is our right but the rights of all the rest as well.

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