Former President Joins The Chorus Against Obama’s Election Fraud Buddies In Iran
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In a challenge to Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, reformist Web sites on Monday reported that former president Mohammad Khatami has called for a national referendum to end the post-election crisis.
Khatami said Iranians have lost their faith in the ruling political system following the June 12 election, and that a referendum would restore the government’s legitimacy.
“Durability of order and continuation of the country’s progress hinge on restoring public trust,” Khatami, a popular reformist, said, according to the Web sites. “From the start, we said there is a legal way to regain that trust. I openly say now that the solution to get out of the current crisis is holding a referendum.”
Khamenei has declared the results of the elections valid, but supporters of Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi claim President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won the election through mass fraud.
In related news, Sky News reported on Monday that the last British Embassy employee held in Teheran has been released on bail.
Several days after the country’s dispute June 12 elections, Iran arrested nine Iranian nationals working at the UK embassy in Teheran, and accused them of fomenting unrest.
Eight of the detainees were released by early July.
The lawyer for the ninth and last man to be released, political analyst Hossein Rassam, had said Iranian authorities charged his client with harming Iran’s national security.
British Foreign Secretary David Miliband slammed Ir
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