Ha’aretz and the Mossad (!) see the light

Saker, I hope you’ve taken a look at todays Asia Times and read Bhadrakumar’s new article. Here is a quote;

“Thus, Khamenei all but jogged Mousavi’s memory at their meeting in Tehran by suggesting that the latter should not join hands with Rafsanjani against him. He suggested that Rafsanjani and his circles are simply using him as a political ladder. Khamenei virtually reminded Mousavi of his old constituency. Indeed, as prime minister (1981-89), Mousavi had an impeccable reputation as a hardliner – every bit as much as the “international community” regards Ahmadinejad today. In a memorable article penned in 1988, the Economist magazine described him as a “firm radical”.

Khamenei folded up his conversation with Mousavi by “admiring” the massive turnout in Friday’s election and “once again underlining its healthy and calm nature”. In a subtle way, he allowed Mousavi to have a peep into his thought processes about the current situation.”

It appears Khamenei is no slouch at maneuvering. He clearly has identifies Rafsanjani as the real enemy and has moved to cut out the legs from under him. More importantly, he is trying to do so at the least possible cost. I think we will end up seeing Musavi in a leading government position. The West may be anticipating this as we already see statements from Obama and articles in Haaretz about how Musavi is “no different” from Ahmadinejad.

Looks like their boy might switch sides and they’re none to happy about it.

On thing I have to say though, is that I greatly admire the protesters. They perceive an injustice and they rally. In this country, the government essentially announced that the public will be indentured servants to the banks and there was hardly a peep from the sheep. There should have been millions of protests nationwide IMHO.