(Los Angeles Times) Robin Wright - Three statements calling for reform in Iran have been issued in the past week, one by opposition presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi, one by a group of exiled religious intellectuals and the third by university professors. Taken together, they suggest that the movement will not settle for anything short of radical change. They seek the resignation of the current leadership, introduction of broad democratic freedoms, prosecution of security forces engaged in violence against the opposition and an end to politics in the military, universities and the clergy. All three statements reflected an increase in defiance on the part of the opposition. The writer is a senior fellow at the U.S. Institute for Peace.
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