Week #5; Iran's Leader of Opposition Assails "Cult" of Rulers

To read the full New York Times Article click here. On February 11th the opposition party in Iran attempted to hold a protest but very few people showed up due to government crackdowns and the thousands of government forces that had been bused in. This has led an opposition leader, Mir Hussein Moussavi, to very critically and publicly say that Iran was being ruled by a dictatorial "cult" and the week before another opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi called for a gauge of the government's popularity through a national referendum which the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei responded to by saying that there would be no compromise with any opposition. This article relates to what we have been learning about in Comparative Government because it demonstrates how the government is using any means necessary to gain legitimacy among the people.

**Thankyou to the New York Times for the picture.

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