By and large, it's all a waste of time anyway.
Who is this "moderate" Mirhossein Mousavi, and why the hell does anyone think he would be any better than the current guy? Remember that every man who runs for office must first be approved by the Iranian Mullahs who control the country. That, more than anything, determines the future of Iran. And that should show us that this man was no moderate. The Weekly Standard gives us this bit of history on the world's reform candidate:
In 1981, when Mousavi first appeared, UPI explained that "Appearances aside, Mousavi heralds a more vigorous propagation of the radical Islamic foreign policy of exporting Iran's revolution." In 1987, Reuters quoted Mousavi at a demonstration in Tehran saying "Tomorrow will be the day we step on the Great Satan. Tomorrow is the time for America to see our iron fists." And in 1989, after the death of Ayatollah Khomeini, the Washington Post described Mousavi as "a leading radical who in the past has competed with Khamenei for primacy in setting government policy pledged subservience, along with his entire cabinet, to the new leader."
In 1988, Reuters reported on a radio address by Mousavi to the Iranian people:
In a Foreign Ministry statement read on Tehran radio today, Iran said that Israel should be annihilated and that implicit recognition of it by the Palestine Liberation Organisation ignored the inalienable rights of the Muslim Palestinan people.
The statement said that the only way to achieve Palestinian rights was continuation of all-out popular struggles against Israel.
Iranian Prime Minister Mir-Hossein Mousavi yesterday called Israel a"cancerous tumour" and said the Palestinian move to accept UN Resolution 242 would anger Muslim revolutionaries.
In 1989, Mousavi called for Salman Rushdie to be killed. The Times (London) reported that "Mr Mir-Hossein Mousavi, the Prime Minister, said the Ayatollah Khomeini's order that Mr Rushdie should be killed 'will undoubtedly be carried out and the person who has become a tool of Zionists against Islam and brazenly attacked it and the Prophet will be punished', according to Tehran Radio." And in that same year, the Washington Post described Mousavi as a "leading hardliner," with links to regime attempts to assassinate political opponents in exile.
Mousavi is also regarded as the father of Iran's nuclear project.
This is what the world is calling a moderate. One who calls for the destruction of the state of Israel. So it is safe to say that no matter who wins the election, and despite the hope in many quarters of the world that things will change in the middle east, the status quo will remain the same. The names may change, but not much else. And how frightening is it to Israel, that the world can view this man as a reformer?
