Weitere Analysen von Moussawis Statement

Bei The National gibt es eine Sammlung von Analysen von Mussawis Erklärung vom 1. Januar:

A proposal by the leader of Iran’s opposition movement has provoked mixed reactions including division among conservatives. Is Mousavi’s implicit recognition of the Ahmadinejad government simply a sign of realism or a move towards reconciliation? [Weiterlesen…]

Michael Ledeen, der wahrlich nicht dafür bekannt ist, Sympathien für das Regime zu hegen, scheint Mussawis Singsang unterdessen verfallen zu sein:

In short, it’s a call–carefully couched in apparently gentle words (which has misled some to characterize it as an abandonment of real regime change)–for the mullahs to abandon their claim of Divine Right, end the state of siege, and submit to the verdict of the people.  It’s a call for the end of the Islamic Republic.