A Response from the Supreme Leader to Mousavi’s 5-Step Solution Proposal

One day after Iran's opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi's 5-step proposal to solve the current crisis in Iran, Iranian Student News Agency, published an interview with former political prisoner and a reformist activist Mohammd Atrianfar on January 3^rd, 2010. In this interview after reviewing the events following the disputed June 2009 election, he has proposed a 9-step solution. It seems that this is an indirect response from Iran's Supreme Leader to Mr. Mousavi's proposal because of the following reasons:

1. Mr. Atrianfar in prison and in the show trial in August 2009, refuted many of his beliefs about the election in particular and about the reformist movement in Iran in general. Many still believe that he has been forced to say those things in prison.
   
2. After his release two months ago, he was silent without even one interview.
   
3. In his today's interview he has used a particular tone and language very similar to Supreme Leader's way of speaking about the event after June disputed election. As two examples, he has mentioned two expressions of "knowing the enemy" and "the highest crime is to doubt about the election". These two expressions have been repeatedly used by the Supreme Leader before.
   
4. His proposal just asks the opposition leader to retreat, and it only accepts the government fault in Kahrizak prison. Therefore, there is nothing about the election, political prisoners, freedom of speech especially by the freedom press asked by Mr. Mousavi in his proposal
   

This interview besides harsh responses of the other conservatives in the government again Mr. Mousavi's proposal have made it clear that Iran's current crisis has passed the point of finding an ordinary political solution. The only solution that is left is to remove Ayatollah Ali Khamenie from his Supreme Leadership. He has shown nothing expect an extreme brutality towards opposition movement in Iran. And there is a fear that the crisis reaches an internal war by February 11^th, 2010, the 31^st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution.