“Breaking Tweets can confirm via reliable sources that Mir Houssein Mousavi has been arrested in Iran. He was arrested at approximately 9:30 p.m. Sunday in Tehran….Mousavi lost June 12’s presidential election to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a landslide, even though the results were expected to be close. It has sparked controversy in the days since and Mousavi supporters have organized protests.”

[1] http://www.breakingtweets.com/2009/06/28/mir-hossein-mousavi-arrested-in-iran/

 This story is just now emerging about the arrest of Mousavi, coming as it does from an increase in rallies and confrontations, followed by yet another night of rooftop singing.  The continued acts of panic and desperation by the Supreme Leader must soon reach that crucial point where those who are aligning against him will have to move openly or the Supreme Leader will have to soon move decicively against elements of the IRG and the Guardian Council itself.

If the army does not offer support for the Supreme Leader, or if significant elements of the army do not follow orders,then the Supreme Leader will have to rely on increased foreign fighters, which could serve to eleminate his immedate threats around him, but the level of contempt the people have for the Supreme Leader at this point will simply produce another wave of opposition that can only be suppressed with even widerspread slaughter.

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Paul Collier

The Freedomist