Translation: Mousavi on Detentions, "Foreign Interference", and Islamic Republic (12 August)

The Latest from Iran (12 August): Two Months Later

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Speaking to the Central Committee for organising reforms, Mir Hossein Mousavi, in the context of criticism of the newspaper Keyhan for its savage attack upon Mehdi Karroubi, said:

I believe that even if the US had used all of its might, it could not have inflicted a greater damage to the country and the Islamic revolution than [the horrific events] happening in the detention centers....Isn't Keyhan by positioning the cultured and intellectual class against the establishment, acting in concert with foreign powers as it is displaying an enmity towards the establishment similar to that of the doubters [the People's Mujahedin] and maintaining the interests of the US and the UK?

...The greatest falsehood was misrepresenting the natural desire of the public for reform as foreign interference....If we study
carefully we shall see that no one has served foreign interests more assiduously than those claiming that the reform movement was inspired by foreign interference....Does the US prefer your broadcasting medium to be a fair and reputable source or for it to lose its reputation by repeating falsehoods?...Are those who ask the IRIB to be fair and transparent working in the interests of foreigners or [is it] those who have forced the people to seek news from foreign media?...Isn't attacking
Karroubi...the best service that can be made to foreign interests?

Mousavi concluded his speech by praying for the freedom of the imprisoned political activists.