Re: [Marxism] "Secret letter 'proves Mousavi won poll'" - Robert Fisk

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

David Thorstad wrote:
> 
> Robert Fisk in the June 18 /Independent/ reports a "photocopy" he picked 
> up "under the plane trees in the centre of the boulevard, single sheets 
> of paper grabbed by the opposition supporters" of a "confidential letter 
> from the Iranian minister of interior, Sadeq Mahsuli, to Iran's Supreme 
> Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, written on Saturday 13 June, the day 
> after the elections, and giving both Mr Mousavi and his ally, Mehdi 
> Karroubi, big majorities in the final results."
> 
> <http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-secret-letter-proves-mousavi-won-poll-1707896.html>.)
>  
> 
>

In case comrades don't read Fisk's article and only rely on the excerpt 
above, he casts doubt on it:

Could this letter be a fake? Even if Mr Mousavi won so many votes, could 
the colourless Mr Karroubi have followed only six million votes behind 
him? And however incredible Mr Ahmadinejad's officially declared 63 per 
cent of the vote may have been, could he really â as a man who has 
immense support among the poor of Iran â have picked up only 
five-and-a-half million votes? And would a letter of such immense 
importance be signed only "on behalf of the minister"?

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