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19 juin 2009

Khameini tells Mousavi: Accept elections results or leave Iran

       Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has reportedly given defeated reformist presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi to either accept the disputed results of the recent elections, or leave the country for exile. Khameini has instructed Mousavi to stand beside him as he uses Friday prayers at Tehran University to discuss the elections results for the first time and call for national unity, according to The London Times. The spiritual leader has urged Iranians to unite behind hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad but supporters of defeated Mousavi have so far ignored the call, holding huge rallies in defiance of an official ban. Thousands of people streamed into Tehran University on Friday to hear Khamenei speak. Some were draped in Iranian flags and carried pictures of Ahmadinejad. Others held sheets of paper with anti-Western slogans. "Don't let the history of Iran be written with the pen of foreigners," one flyer said, reflecting official Iranian anger at international criticism of the post-election violence. Khamenei's speech follows a sixth day of protests by Mousavi supporters. Hundreds of thousands of protesters wearing black and carrying candles filled the streets of Tehran again Thursday, joining Mousavi to mourn demonstrators killed in clashes over Iran's disputed election. The massive protest openly defied orders from Iran's supreme leader, despite a government attempt to placate Mousavi and his supporters by inviting the reformist, and two other candidates who ran against hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to a meeting with the country's main electoral authority. (07,11)

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