Mousavi Calls for Gen'l Strike in Iran on Tuesday

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telling citizens to "close their shops" and stay home from work.
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield

Protestors claim to have taken down Ahmadinejad’s website by “swarming” it. They are now targeting Ayatollah Khamenei’s website.
http://enduringamerica.com/2009/06/14/latest-updates-from-iran-protests-and-rumours-14-june/#more-10862

Reading these things makes me so wish that we had been bolder in 2000. Even though the Mexican protests in 2006 came to naught, it still would have felt better than acting like sheep.

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1. Reportedly he's also under heavy pressure to bow to the coup...

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/06/message-from-mousavi.html

"Message From Mousavi

Via my contacts at the Farsi-speaking BBC, a telephone plea:

I AM UNDER EXTREME PRESSURE TO ACCEPT THE RESULTS OF THE SHAM ELECTION. THEY HAVE CUT ME OFF FROM ANY COMMUNICATION WITH PEOPLE AND AM UNDER SURVEILLANCE. I ASK THE PEOPLE TO STAY IN THE STREETS BUT AVOID VIOLENCE"

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2. There will be others if Mousavi has to give in.

Even the clerics are split over Ahmadi-Nejad and seem to be challenging Khameini by proxy. Mousavi is pretty bad on civil liberties, so the next person who captures the desire of the country to join the rest of the world may be a better leader. I wonder if there is any way the public can exert enough pressure on the "Grand Ayatollah" to remove Ahmadi-Nejad before the next election in 4 years.