So there!

The AP reports that there are now calls from high levels in Iran to put Mousavi on trial for treason — and America is to blame of course:

A top aide to Iran’s all-powerful leader has accused the country’s main opposition leader of being an American agent who should be tried for treason…There was no immediate reaction from Mir Hossein Mousavi to the accusation in an editorial Saturday in the conservative daily newspaper Khayan. Mousavi, who claims he was fraudulently deprived of victory in the June 12 election that gave Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a second term, has not been seen in public in recent days.

The editorial, by Hossein Shariatmadari, a top aide to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, raised the possibility that Mousavi could be arrested and charged like many other pro-reform figures…Shariatmadari wrote, “It has to be asked whether the actions of (Mousavi and his supporters) are in response to instructions of American authorities.”

There have been no street protests since Sunday, but Mousavi has maintained his opposition to the results, issuing a defiant statement against the government Wednesday, saying “A majority of the people — including me — do not accept its political legitimacy.” Iran’s ruling clerics have called the elections “pure” and “healthy” following the supreme leader’s declaration that the results would stand.

So much for that business that the “supreme leader understands the concerns of Iranians about the election.”

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