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Moussavi stays firm: no recognition of Ahmadinejad re-election
Jul 1, 2009, 14:40 GMT
Tehran - Iranian opposition leader Mir-Hossein Moussavi said in a statement Wednesday that he did not acknowledge the re-election of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
'From now on we will have a government the legitimacy of which the majority of the people, including me, will not acknowledge,' Moussavi said in a first reaction to to the official confirmation of Ahmadinejad's re-confirmation,
Moussavi further said on his website that he would make no compromise on the rights of his supporters.
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