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Originally Posted by BradH  Mousavi:
While in office, he severed ties with Great Britain over the U.K.'s refusal to disavow Salman Rushdie, the British author whose The Satanic Verses spurred Ayatollah Khomeini to declare a fatwa calling for Rushdie's death Was placed on the leadership council of Lebanon's Shi'ite militant group Hizballah by Ayatollah Khomeini when the group was founded in 1982. Mousavi does not recognize Israel, though he has condemned the Holocaust Defended the seizure of 52 American hostages at the U.S. embassy in 1979. The hostages were held for more than 400 days; the two countries have not had normalized relations since http://www.time.com/time/world/artic...904194,00.html |
Most of that was nearly 30 years ago. He's been out of the Iranian public's eye for nearly 20 years. Given his campaign promises regarding foreign relations and Khamenei's response toward him. I think it's possible to at least entertain the thought that he's not as much of a hard liner as he used to be. That's relative of course, he's still a hard liner by most western standards. The question is would you rather have he or Ahmadinejad in power?