Influential Iranian conservative accuses Mousavi of being US agent and committing treason By LEE KEATH Associated Press Writer TEHRAN, Iran July 4, 2009 (AP) The Associated Press 2 comments A top aide of Iran's supreme leader called the country's main opposition figure a U.S. agent and accused him of committing crimes against the nation in an editorial Saturday. Top Iranian cleric Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, arrives to deliver his sermon during Friday prayers at... The editorial represents the first time that Mir Hossein Mousavi, who ran for president in Iran's June 12 elections, has been publicly called a U.S. agent. Weeks of demonstrations erupted in Iran after Mousavi lost to the incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and authorities maintain that the protests were instigated by foreign elements. "It has to be asked whether... [read full story]
