In an announcement today, Mir Hossein Mousavi said that he would not quit the battle despite the publicly funded media campaign against him in the country's newspapers, news agencies, and websites identified with Ahmadinejad.
He reiterated that the election was a "great fraud," and that those who protested against it had been attacked illegally, killed, and arrested.
Those responsible for these deeds, he said, were continuing to frame innocent people and to spread lies, and were attributing to him the deeds that they themselves had carried out.
He said that despite the accusations against him, and the threats to put him on trial, he could not for a moment ignore the threat that Ahmadinejad was posing to the regime of the Islamic Republic, or the people's need to stand fast in its demand to actualize its rights.
He accused Ahmadinejad and his supporters of dragging the country into chaos, harming the regime, and serving foreign interests, and called on his supporters to demonstrate silently and legally so as not to fall into the trap set by Ahmadinejad and his supporters who are trying to depict this social and protest movement as lawbreakers with foreign connections.
Source: Ghalamnews, Iran, June 25, 2009
