Talk:Mir-Hossein Mousavi

link

This should be useful: http://roozonline.com/02article/007089.shtml roozbeh 14:35, May 17, 2005 (UTC)

NPOV

This article is highly slanted, and looks more like political propaganda. Among the offending lines:

• [...] incredibly respected and praised by many Iranians across the political spectrum [...]
• His strong commitment to Social Justice and Equality is well-known and is regarded to be at the core of his political ideology [...]
• [His bid] has been since welcomed by many Iranians who still recall his time as Prime Minister.
• [...] has been immensely welcomed by Trade Unions, Labour associations, grassroot activists on both sides of the political aisle [...]

And so on. It seems that these changes were introduced by 136.148.109.150. Orzetto (talk) 14:46, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

In such cases, you need to add POV-section and not NPOV for the whole article! Tag was changed for time being. By the way, try to express yourself with respect. Regards Parvazbato59 (talk) 18:55, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

The text seems to be written by a pro-Mousavi author. I will try to find some sources that have a more neutral point of view, then will update it based on those. --Ebright82 (talk) 08:03, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Since the article has not been revised can an editor please add an NPOV tag to the section in question. The election is coming up and this article is in major need of revision. Lazlo holyfeld (talk) 20:54, 26 May 2009 (UTC)Lazlo Holyfeld

Cite error

I can't understand how to solve it. Will someone explain? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ali Nazifpour (talk • contribs) 18:13, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

in the "Premiership" section it says he is "well-remembered" this would be better stated as "well-regarded" because remembered implies that he is not longer living —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.245.47.21 (talk) 17:49, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

Errors in the Infobox

In his time the president was "Ali Khamenei", not the current president "Mahmoud Ahmadinejad"; and also the leader was "Ayatollah Khomeini", not the current leader "Ali Khamenei". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.139.117.48 (talk) 04:54, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

free potato?

towards the end of the page:

"He asked for Khatami's support in his campaign. He also welcomed Karoubi's presence.He also criticized giving free potato to people by the government and called it a violation of law and said "we have no money to do so". He claims that he campaigns with minimum fund raising possible."

is this something based on actual fact, or just vandalism? 75.119.226.122 (talk) 12:24, 6 May 2009 (UTC) vandalism? I think Iran is building the bomb but free potato no the people are a little better off then that. If potatoes were replaced giving of money for votes by the current president the maijlis has stopped some of this . check ROOZ for accurate news.---- Nate Riley 10:47, 22 May 2009 (UTC)---- Nate Riley 10:47, 22 May 2009 (UTC)---- Nate Riley 10:47, 22 May 2009 (UTC)N8riley

Yeah!

AhmadiNejad gave people free potato (which taken back from Gazza) to vote for him. Mamylo (talk) 23:03, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

2009 Presidential Campaign

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The Iranian government has blocked access to the social networking site Facebook amid political jockeying for the June 12 presidential elections, according to the semi-official Iranian Labour News Agency. Reformist candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi -- a former prime minister considered a threat to current hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -- created a Facebook page for his campaign that has more than 5,000 supporters on the site. Those attempting to visit Facebook received a message in Farsi saying, "Access to this site is not possible," according to CNN personnel in Tehran. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Brianjohnsrud (talk • contribs) 08:25, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

Unsourced comments

No source was provided for the statement that Ahmadinejad "in 2005 called the Holocaust a myth". A link was provided to the FOX News website which simply stated the same thing, also unsourced. Jiminezwaldorf (talk) 03:46, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Media censorship

The campaign faced censorship several times,

"Yase no" یاس نو newspaper which was considered to be a newspaper of the reformists camp close to former president Mohammad Khatami, has been banned from printing and distribution 17th of may.

Facebook which became a part of his alternative media movement for supporters was banned 24th of may due to rise of his online media attention. But the government didnt have a clear announcement on this issue, and the ban was abolished 2 days later.

There have been no clear positioning of the governmental authorities on this issue, they try to keep silence, the "ILNA" news agency even announced that this filtering is going to be nullified soon. The reaction in Mr Mousavi and Karroubi's (the other reformist candidate) camp was a very sharp condemnation, telling the "ministry of Culture and Islamic guidance" that these illegitimate actions are not going to help them to keep back the flood. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mammadsadeghi (talk • contribs) 04:38, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Albanian Wikipedia

Please, add a link to the Albanian version of the article: sq:Mir Hosein Musavi.--Getoar TX (talk) 08:40, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

2009 presidential election fraud in Iran

According Mousavi's supporters and based on reliable sources, Mousavi was the true winner in 2009 presidential election and Iranian were quite shocked by the results announced by the government officials. Mousavi rejected the result as rigged and urged his supporters to resist a government of "lies and dictatorship." . "I'm warning that I won't surrender to this manipulation," said a statement on Mousavi's Web site. "The outcome of what we've seen from the performance of officials ... is nothing but shaking the pillars of the Islamic Republic of Iran's sacred system and governance of lies and dictatorship," it added.

Mousavi warned "people won't respect those who take power through fraud." The headline on one of his Web sites read: "I won't give in to this dangerous manipulation." Mousavi appealed directly to Khamenei to intervene and stop what he said were violations of the law. Khamenei, who is not elected, holds ultimate political authority in Iran and controls all major policy decisions.

Supporters of Mousavi clashed with police forces in the heart of Iran's capital Saturday, pelting them with rocks and setting fires in the worst unrest in Tehran in a decade. They accused the hard-line president of using fraud to steal election victory from his reformist rival.Later on the unrest spread to other major cities of Iran. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nan20092009 (talk • contribs) 01:32, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

Right-wing?

Yes, I realize "right-wing" / "left-wing" is sometimes a rather meaningless description, but what I found strange is that according to this, he has support from unions, which I would generally consider to be "left-wing" politics. So does he have other views that outweigh his union support? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.19.168.209 (talk) 05:35, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

Responsible for massacre?

There are allegations that Mousavi was responsible for massacres on political prisoners committed in 1980-81, but in the text that this fact refers to it says nothing about this Mr. Moussavi. The only Mousavi that is mentioned there is Ayatolla Seyyed Ruhollah Mousavi Khomeini. Am I missing something?