The opposition leader who lost the Iranian presidential elections two weeks ago, Mir Hossein Mousavi, further urged his supporters today to keep up the fight for the people’s rights. This comes after the Iranian authorities validated the outcome of the election, after thousands have been arrested, after an indeterminate number of deaths at the hands of the state sponsored militia, the Basij, after an opposition newspaper was shut down by the government, and after the Iran National Security Council told Mousavi to back off.

The greatest hope for an end to state sponsored terrorism and authoritarianism is when the people unite behind a clear cause, one that defends the rights of a people to determine their own future and their own government. Unfortunately, the Iranian people are faced with a government that is willing to use force to defend itself, even against its own people, and whose rule is “justified” by claims of divine authority. The best weapon against such oppression is the truth. The more that the Iranian people can transmit news about what is occurring, the more photos they upload, the more videos the distribute, the better the chances that this popular uprising against dictatorship can achieve some measure of success. The more irrefutable proof that the government is engaging in behavior that is against morality, by murdering innocents, denying the truth, etc. the more that the regime will lose legitimacy among its supporters. Already, more and more elements of Iranian society are rejecting the regime’s legitimacy. Furthermore, help from the US and the free world will only help the protesters. Contrary to what this article says, money from the US will not undermine the resistance movement because the Iranian people have been listening to the constant denunciations of the US and are numb to further accusations. Just like Americans are now largely unaffected by advertisements because of their near universal presence in our society, Iranians will not care so much about yet another accusation hurled at the US or the west, after all, it is not the west that rigged the elections. The US needs its own revolution against the ever-expanding federal government and ever-worsening national debt… else we all become slaves to the institutions that own that debt, foreign governments and the Federal Reserve.

-AG