Mousavi Arrested?

Reports that Moussavi was arested appear to be false echoing denials from Moussavi's facebook Page.

(I can't believe I just typed that sentence.)

Wonder what the trumped-up charge would be? Agent for the CIA? MI6? Zionism?

Putting aside the fact that after the last administration the CIA can hardly find its collective ass with both hands and failed to even inform President Bush there was a difference between Sunni and Shi'a until 6 months after the Iraq invasion....

After close study, I believe Moussavi has become an agent of only one major foreign influence, and that from India, Gandhian nonviolence. Anyone who has watched the long struggle of the reformists for the last 30 years knows that the reformist movement came to life at a time when there was virtually no contact with the West. It draws on a deeply rich culture and intellectual tradition and draws its inspiration from Iran's Constitutionalists of 1908 and from the 1979 Khomeini revolution. It is both cynical and insulting of the Ahmadinejad regime to claim the protests are the result of Western governments, as if Iranians are dim children who have to be led by the hand to the well. He himself knows it's not true and I suspect most Iranians do as well.

This revolt is homegrown, from the ground up. No foreign government nor the world itself is leading the demonmstrators. It's the other way around.

The protesters have said and shown for years that they do not want to be anything but Iranians. They want various degrees of democratic reform and they want to be part of the world again, the whole world, to engage and be engaged. If they wanted to be part of another country most of them would have emigrated years ago. This comes up again and again in conversations with Iranians. The spies who have influenced the demonstrations are domestic spies for the regime who infringe on people's liberty and privacy. They do the job of alienating Iranians so much better and more effectively than any foreign government could. Iran is said to be lousy with them. Twitter sure is.

Here's a good story about the dire lack of western intelligence on Iran