To read the New York Times article click here. This week the opposition leader in Iran has said that the opposition movement will remain committed to a nonviolent path and has condemned the ruling clerics for abuses against anti-government detainees. Mir Hossein Mousavi has been quoted saying that the detained political activists are innocent. Iran granted the mothers of three Americans visas to visit their children in the Tehran prison where they are being held. Mousavi is pleased by this choice but wants the same rights to be extended to Iranian women and criticizes the government of being a "dictatorial 'cult' and a corrupt power structure." The opposition in Iran continues to claim that the elections in June were fraudulent and Mousavi should have actually won. Iran's government has shut down dozens of pro-reform newspapers and blocked hundreds of reformist websites. Mousavi says that these crackdowns just further provide proof that the government is afraid of what the Iranian people actually want. This article relates to Comparative Government because the government is denying civil rights and civil liberties and this brings their legitimacy into question.
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