Will Mir Hossein Mousavi Be Made a Martyr by Iran ?

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad continues to imprison, torture, and murder protestors who remain agitated over the falsified results of Iran's presidential election. He openly murders those who speak out against him.

And now, the nephew of Mir Hossein Mousavi, Ali Habibi-Mousavi, was recently murdered during the protests. The Los Angeles Times reports that "he had received death threats for about a week before the killing." The killing of Ali is the second son to die in his family. His brother Ebrahim died in 1987 in the war front.

Despite this, Mir Hossein Mousavi continues to speak out against Ahmadinejad. He continues to risk his life to try to gain change and truth in Iran.

Mir Hossein Mousavi is now the voice of the protestors. He is a symbol of the ongoing struggle for change in Iran. Will he too become a martyr killed by the Iranian government? He served Iran as a prime minister. He knew the risks when he started his campaign. And yet he spoke out and ran a campaign against Ahmadinejad.

His campaign color, green, is now a symbol of the protests in Iran. One small way the people of Iran are showing their loyalty to Mousavi is by turning their picture on Twitter to the color green. Another way they show their support of Mousavi is by attending protests waving the color green and wearing the color green. Iran seems like a sea of green when pictures of protestors taking to the streets reach the world outside of Iran.

Mr. Mousavi recently wrote on the Internet that "I'm not afraid of being one of the martyrs who lost their lives in their fight for their rightful demands since the vote" according to Reuters.

The Memri Blog reports that Mousavi has created a strategy for solving the ongoing protests in Iran: "the regime will acknowledge its responsibility for the crisis, new clean elections will be held, prisoners and protesters will be freed, freedom of the press, of expression and of assembly will be guaranteed, and freedom of action will be given to political parties."

And now, Ebrahim Raisi, the deputy head of the judiciary in Iran stated that protesters are "enemies of God, or mohareb in Farsi, a crime punishable by death under Iranian law" notes the Wall Street Journal.

Mir Hossein Mousavi still has his freedom and his life for now. Iran knows that should they arrest him or kill him it will further inflame the protest movement. It is tragic that Mousavi's nephew lost his life at a protest. It will be a blow to democracy if Mousavi is also made a martyr by Iran.

The deaths of the protesters is an ongoing example of evil regimes that fight democracy and truth. To see photos which show the scope of the protests in Iran and the horror of the murder of protesters click on the word SOURCES below.

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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126234477510012653.html?mod=rss_whats_news_us

http://www.reuters.com

http://www.thememriblog.org/blog_personal/en/23441.htm