Tuesday
May102011
Iran Feature: The Ghosts of Ahmadinejad's Right-Hand Man (Pedestrian)
Tuesday, May 10, 2011 at 9:32
In 2009, when the Iranian elections were in national --- and international --- spotlight, during the TV debate between Mousavi and Ahmaidnejad,which kept us Iranians, all over the globe glued to our TV (or monitor) screens, something funny happened. Mir Hossein Mousavi, the soft spoken, apprehensive opposition candidate said on live TV: “this government is a government of fortunetellers and exorcists.”
Mousavi was to pay a heavy price for these words.
Following the election, when the Supreme Leader openly backed Ahmadinejad in his notorious Friday Prayer speech, he also directly targeted Mousavi’s statement, condemning those who “blatantly attribute magic and wizardry to the government".
How ironic indeed.