Mousavi vows to continue protests

Thursday, June 25, 2009 at 11:00 pm

Mousavi vows to continue protests EHRAN: Defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi vowed on Thursday to continue his campaign to challenge the results of the vote, criticizing foreign intervention.

“I won’t refrain from securing the rights of the Iranian people… because of personal interests and the fear of threats,” he said in a statement on his newspaper website, Kalemeh.

Mousavi, a 67-year-old soft-spoken architect and painter who served as premier after the 1979 Islamic revolution, vowed to challenge pressures to “give up my demand for the election to be cancelled.”

Incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been declared the clear winner of the presidential elections with 63 percent of the vote.

“I don’t think that anyone who likes the country, Islam and the revolution, will tolerate the role of foreigners in our affairs,” said Mousavi.