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Kubu supporting presidential candidate who defeated Iran, Mir Hossein Mousavi, again called protests in the streets of Tehran, on Wednesday (17 / 6). Iranian authorities also intensify pressure on the more Mousavi supporters and leaders reformis.
Mousavi also calls for peaceful protests on Thursday and a seven-day mourning for supporting the protests killed in action Monday. Source reformis stronghold in the states, the more their leader is arrested.
A day earlier, hundreds of thousands of supporters Mousavi and supporting President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad together down the road to Tehran. Ahmadinejad won the election is declared president on Friday last week. This is triggering protests from the citadel Mousavi point of cheating in the election.
Ahmadinejad, on Wednesday, said, victory in the election is proof of people's trust in government dipimpinnya. "The results demonstrate the performance of elected government ninth (Iran) is based on honesty and service to the people. Twenty-five million votes to prove the management of this country, "he said.
Ahmadinejad to get support from the President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez. "Venezuela expressed resistance to the campaign of slander and not based egregious coming from outside parties," a statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Venezuela.
Venezuela also investigate the action on the intervention in the affairs of Iran and demanded immediate dihentikannya intimidation efforts of Iran and rock stability.
Rejection in the country
However, the more parties that do not like the way the government stronghold supporters protest action Mousavi. In addition to voice concerns of a number of countries, from within the country also began to appear rejection.
Human rights groups leaders Nobel Peace Prize recipient origin Iran, Shirin Ebadi, to provide support to the protest action Mousavi stronghold. "Center for Human Rights Defenders with the explicit call to the government and senior officials to stop the violence that made the military and security institutions," a statement of the group.
Hundreds of people in Iran and South Korea in a few cities in Europe also came down to the street to support Mousavi. Ministry of foreign countries in Germany, France and the Netherlands ambassador to Iran in order to represent their country concerns. Similarly the Iranian ambassador called for a number of European countries to declare that they do not meddle in the affairs of Iran.
Meanwhile in Paris, French President Nicolas Sarkozy called Iran's election as cheating. He mentions the emergence of protest as a failure of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the first period of his reign.
United States President Barack Obama refused to intervene in the political situation in Iran. He only says akan forward "diplomacy firmly" to Iran of any pemilunya results. Obama also said that sure Top Iranian Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei understand there are deep concerns about the election in the country. (ap / AFP / Reuters / fro)
