Mousavi "To Release Proof"

[maven]

Defeated Mousavi to disclose "tell-all documents" on election: report

TEHRAN, July 2 (Xinhua) -- Iran's defeated candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi said that he will disclose "tell-all documents" proving fraud and irregularities in Iran's recent presidential election, local satellite Press TV reported on Thursday.

Mousavi, who has rejected the result of Iran's presidential election as fraudulent, said on Wednesday that a number of Iranian scholars are set to form a committee to preserve the vote of the people, the report said.

The committee aims to "make public documents proving fraud and irregularities in the election," Mousavi said in his latest statement posted on his website, adding that "I will join this committee as well."

Mousavi remained defiant by reiterating that Iran's new government is "illegitimate."

"From now on ...the majority of society, of which I am a member, will not accept its (the new government's) legitimacy," the statement said.

Referring to a number of detained people of his supporters, Mousavi called on the officials to "free the children of the revolution from the prisons," and also called for lifting of a ban on some media and websites.

Guardian Council spokesman Abbasali Kadkhodai told state television late Monday that the case for reviewing the election results "is closed now" for the council.

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[Mediocrates]

Maybe he can take his complaints to the UN or The Guardian.

[MGB8]

Obama will merely direct him to send his complaints to "Supreme Leader". Or maybe to Chavez and the OAS?

[maven]

mmm, looks like a fightback is happening at the top of the regime:

=Iran clerics defy election ruling=

The split within the clergy appears to be widening
A group of clerics in Iran has called Iran's presidential vote invalid, contradicting official results.

The pro-reform clerics group said in a statement that the top legislative body, the Guardian Council, no longer had the right "to judge in this case."

In a statement to the press, the Assembly of Qom Seminary Scholars and Researchers said some members of the Guardian Council had "lost their impartial image in the eyes of the public."

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[Mediocrates]

That appears to be a religious squabble. After all THE MOST authoritative Shiia religious figure in the world, doesn't even live in Iran. He lives in Iraq. And he says that the clerics in Iran have lost their legitimacy and should not intrude in governance.

[maven]

That appears to be a religious squabble. After all THE MOST authoritative Shiia religious figure in the world, doesn't even live in Iran. He lives in Iraq. And he says that the clerics in Iran have lost their legitimacy and should not intrude in governance.This is the situation at the moment Mediocrates. Still waiting and hoping that the most respected Ayotollah in the world; the saintly Ayotollah Ali Sistani of Najaf would speak out. Now he believes exactly what you say that the clergy should stay out of politics but on very rare occasions he will make a statement. What we are onlt getting so far is comment form Ayotollahs within Iran itself in Qom.

Iraqi top Shiite clerics are silent on Iran
By HAMZA HENDAWI

NAJAF, Iraq (AP) — There is no place outside Iran that has closer links to Tehran's ruling establishment than Iraq's holy Shiite city of Najaf, where the silence during Iran's post-election crisis says much about the deep complexities of their cross-border bonds.

"Simply put, the whole affair does not concern Najaf," said Sheik Ali al-Najafi, son of and spokesman for Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Bashir al-Najafi, one of the city's four top Shiite clerics. "We will not interfere in the internal affairs of a dear, next door neighbor."

The four — who include Iranian-born Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani — have remained quiet on the upheavals in Iran since the disputed presidential election June 12. The reasons have to do with both religion and politics.

A short distance away from his domed shrine lives al-Sistani, who came to Iraq more than 50 years ago but has retained Iranian citizenship.

Despite the deep ties between the clerical establishments in Najaf and Iran, there are important differences.

The Najaf strain of Shiite teaching emphasizes that top clerics should be background figures — though influential — on most political affairs.

They did not speak out even during the crackdowns on Shiites by Saddam Hussein's regime in the 1990s. Nor have they spoken publicly about U.S. accusations that Iran has been aiding Shiite militias in Iraq as part of indirect pressure on American forces and the U.S.-backed government in Baghdad.

Iran's Islamic system, by contrast, bestows all main powers on the non-elected Shiite theocracy.

There had been expectations that the top Najaf clerics could break their traditions and publicly comment on the unrest — appealing for calm or even coming to the defense of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, following the protests over claims that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election was rigged.

But any sign of interference in Iran's affairs by the Najaf clerics, particularly al-Sistani, could prove costly at a time when many Iraqis fear that Iran will try to broaden its influence in their country as the Americans reduce their military presence.

"Based on Iran's substantial influence in Iraq, speaking out in favor of one faction over another would be risky and could invite increased Iranian meddling in Iraq," said Michael W. Hanna, a Middle East expert from the Century Foundation in New York.

"Iran weighs heavily on us here in Najaf," said a longtime al-Sistani aide. "Many ask al-Sistani to speak about Iran, but we are not responding," he added, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject.

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