Mir Hossein Mousavi calls Iranian government illegitimate

• Attack on 'obsession with security' follows arrests • First statement since poll result rubber-stamped Iran's defeated presidential challenger, Mir Hossein Mousavi, declared today that he considered Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's new government illegitimate, and called for protests to continue. In a defiant statement posted on his website, the moderate leader also called for the release of detained "children of the revolution" – a reference to reformist figures arrested since the 12 June poll. Iran's national police chief said 1,032 people had been detained and most freed. The rest had been "referred to the public and revolutionary courts". Mousavi's language seemed chosen to suggest that the Islamic regime, which in the last two weeks has seen the worst unrest in 30 years, was betraying the basic principles of the 1979 revolution.... [read full story]                    

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