Key Iranian opposition figure and former Prime Minister Mir Hossein Mousavi today warned the international community against the Obama Administration UN sanctions, noting that they will do serious harm to Iran’s private economy and its civilian population.
Though Mousavi was quick to criticize President Ahmadinejad’s “tactless” foreign policy as a driven force behind the sanctions, he cautioned that it would do serious damage to entrepreneurs and would cause heavy unemployment across the nation.
Mousavi ran a failed presidential campaign last June in Iran, and was the leader of the unsuccessful Green Revolution amid claims of voter fraud. Since then he had continued to organize intermittent protests against the Iranian government.
The US announced the sanctions early last week, just a day after the Iranian government reached a third party enrichment deal which had ostensibly been sought by the US.
Since then the US had slammed the enrichment deal itself, and suggested that it was never really interested in it to begin with. Moreover, they have insisted the sanctions have nothing to do with the enrichment deal, even though when they were proposed in January they were ostensibly to “punish” Iran for not agreement to the deal at the time.
American will probably sleepwalk into another war. Geography has never been their strong point, so if their government starts a war with Iran, because it is in the Middle East, they will probably not understand the consequences of their actions until another decade or so when they are still fighting there.
If we are going to talk about who Mousavi is, shouldn't we talk about his past as a brutal leader of Iran, who seems to have more Iranian blood on his hands than Ahmadinejad could dream of, and who also happens to have a lot of US blood on his hands, reportedly, and who also (and this kind of seeming contradiction is all too characteristic of complex US 'defense' of 'interests') appears to have a history of covert US contacts which makes it rather easy, rather, inevitable, to suppose that he remains an important conduit/target for US covert interests — do ya think any of that might be relevant to considering Mousavi's rather interest and interestingly timely, from a US point of view, role in contemporary Iranian upheavals? It all does dovetail so nicely with US determination to achieve 'regime change' in Iran, doesn't it?
I think we need to be able to walk and chew gum. Yes, we CAN sympathize with sincere protestors in Iran who want reform, and we can be supportive, without denying that Mousavi's 'Green Revolution' is all too obviously yet another US covertly manipulated Color Coup. What should we think when innocent and sincere Iranians are seemingly manipulated into laying their lives, and their very real desire for real reform, on the line for what appears to be a US policy of 'regime change'? Should we not at least acknowledge that the situation is far more complex than it might appear?
So when we discuss Mousavi's background, we ought to at least acknowledge his apparently profoundly sordid history.
Why did it take so long for the former prime minister to make a statement against sanctions? What was he waiting for?