Mousavi Interview

Here is a Farsi interview with Mousavi in three clips:







Here is an English part from his Facebook:

Some have their interests in having a divided society. / Taking the fanatic approach will take the country to a dead-end I feel that the tendency of power to become totalitarian has led to a structured corruption of power in different branches of the establishment. Considering the Imam's viewpoint, unity is not achievable based on political loyalties. The union approved by Imam, is a union that relies on components like national interests and a healthy survival of the Islamic establishment where your connections to power through family, friendship and acquaintance do not matter. One of the issues that was raised during the election was on whatever happened to the 300 Billion Dollars (of Oil revenues)

During the war, if an issue of financial corruption was raised it was immediately attended to. The smallest corruptions was magnified to a great degree (due to the ongoing war.) In the past, if there was an issue of a missing ten thousand dollars, without record of spending, this could have caused the fall of the then government. While now, the issue is on billions of dollars and nobody seems to care. If it was the early years of the revolution, this very legislation to provide direction to the subsidies (referring the Ahmadinejad's legislation to remove subsidies within 3 years) would not have been raised the way it is now. This legislation is not bad in itself. But [right now] we (referring the Ahmadinejad's government) are on one side talking about removing all the subsidies causing gas prices to increase, while on other side we are refusing the underground subway system its budget. On one side people's daily affairs would be interrupted under the pressure of high gas prices, and on other we put no effort on public transportation. This would cause serious problems for people. If it becomes common in a system (of government) for people to see that their rights are trampled without any objection, that system will move towards violence and dictatorship.

I sincerely believe that granting multi-billion dollar contract to Sepah (IRGC) is neither in the interest of the whole regime nor in the interest of Sepah.There are individuals who live in this way. I sincerely do not know if they have faith or are religious or not. There is a common atmosphere of accusations. We have people who have a very corrupt record, if it is viewed with the viewpoint of the Imam. Now they say that this great popular movement is all connected to the MKO. The interests of the country is in defining the circle of “insiders” such that there is very little left on the outside [allowing almost everyone a voice.] otherwise, we have to doubt our own behavior. We simply cannot put aside thousands of prominent managers who have served this country.What is happening these days is that the margins have become bigger than the context. The context has become very slim. I just say it symbolically: in this margin, we have many managers and clerics, a few marja’ a few ex-presidents, and even an ex-head of parliament. You can’t call this margin. This is a transaction. In a situation like this, those who have remained in the main context have to rely on garrisons because they don’t have the support of such a big margin. And this is what has happened: in order to prevent coma, we became numb and insensitive as if suffering from leprosy. It is in our country’s interest to agree on a fundamental and important matter: the constitution. You and I may have difference of opinion but we have to agree on the constitution to solve our problems. We should put aside our differences and attempt to reform.The people who participated in the revolution didn’t come to the scene to face so many problems. They came for a better life and for freedom.