IRAN RISES

A Few Friendly Questions of Engineer Mir Hosein Musavi!

Aside from questions left unanswered and ambiguity about the causes of and methods by which Engineer Mir Hosein Musavi in the tenth cycle of elections to the presidency, along with his political, cultural, social, and economic views, as well as his silence and indifference of twenty years towards events in Azerbaijan and the inconsistencies, violations of human rights, limitations and threats on civil rights and legitimate freedoms and deviations from the original goals of the revolution, I consider him a clean-handed and correct individual, but the gathering of the pigeons of power’s sanctuary and the professional opportunists has also excited anxieties in me and many like-minded, so that it is necessary that when I address myself to Mr. Musavi, I refer to them in several cases and remain awaiting a logical response.

1. In my eight years in the Islamic Consultative Assembly, I have observed up close the behavior of many Majlis representatives and all the ministers and managers of Khatami and Ahmadinejad, and repeatedly summoned to the Majlis a significant number of them for law-breaking, corruption, and taking advantage of their offices or referred to their deeds in the course of speeches and interviews and indicated that I was certain that you, sir, are more or less acquainted with them. In addition to them, it is apparent that many of them are the very same people who have prepared the way for the defeat of the people’s reformist movement through their monopolizing words and deeds and their deviation from the criteria and demands desired by the people. Once again, the smell of kebab is wafting into their nostrils and they are surrounding you, as we have said, along with the representatives of the ministers and managers, with the aim of asking for a share, and they have inevitably left these stains so that should you, sir, come to power, these people might, as in the past, turn the people’s hopes to despair.
2. Although you have been far from the land of your birth for many long years, I am certain that you are aware of the place and status of His Eminence Mojtahed Shabestari, the Friday Imam of Tabriz, among the people of Azerbaijan in general and the citizens of Tabriz in particular, and his indefensible behavior and policies.¹ Now that you have returned to the land of your fathers after over two decades for the first time, you have found it agreeable to take a propaganda trip to Azerbaijan, what excuse can be made for your having rushed to visit Sabestari during the two days of your stay in Tabriz? Isn’t this a sneering at those who have been wounded by some of the Friday Imam’s behavior and selfishness?!
3. As it is to be expected from friends like you and Mr. Karubi, at the same time names of the candidates being considered by the Guardian Council were announced, you expressed regret over Your Servant’s having been disqualified when you were contacted by telephone, and this has aroused my gratitude. You, sir, in the course of this conversation, addressed me and said, “Among those who have applied to be candidates for the presidency, you were among the most prominent … and I consider you a prominent and patriotic figure who has had a courageous presence in the Majlis …,” and, concluding this conversation, you promised that you would officially declare your protest against the my illegal disqualification.Now that a week has passed since you made your promise and it has long been said that one should be true to one’s word, if your description of Your Servant is even approximately true and was in accordance with your beliefs, this question is also posed, that according to what criterion is the silence of a candidate aspiring to a position which requires the protection of the Constitution and the nation’s rights on the matter of the illegal disqualification of someone who, as you yourself said, is “among the most prominent, a prominent and patriotic figure who has had a courageous presence in the Majlis” excusable?! Is this silence not to be blamed on the opposition of those same people who had been included in Your Servant’s sharp Majlis investigations and are now gathered opportunistically around you, does it have some other cause?
   Your response on the above ambiguities and questions is not important to the writer of these lines for the sake of conciliation, but because it can be a test so that one might be certain of the degree of sincerity and firmness of those dear ones who, in the days of campaigning, announced that they put the defense of civil and social rights at the top of their agenda and beat the drums of reformism!!

   Inevitably, an appropriate response could be a turning point to launch a tsunami and could have an astonishing effect and make amazing changes in the outcome of the elections in favor of a particular candidate.

   “It may be that you despise and thing and it is good for you and it might be that you love a thing and it is bad for you. But G-d knows and you know not.” Koran, 2:216

Footnotes

1 In December 2008, Alami made a speech to a meeting of reformists in Zanjan. There, he protested his impartiality, saying that he would pursue criminality whether it arose from the Ahmadinejad or the Khatami camps. “Even,” he declared, “if in a government of Imam Hosein (ع) and he saw disobedience [to the law], he would oppose it.” Mojtahed Shabestari accused him of saying, “Even if Imam Hosein (ع) would form a cabinet and it would not be in accordance with my criteria and deviate from the Constitution, I would drag him into the Majlis.” He tried to incite goons and thugs to attack him, but Islamic clubs and religious scholars rushed to his aid.

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