“We were all Ahmadinejads then”
by David Adesnik | July 2, 2009
Hooman Majd in TNR:
One Mousavi campaign manager was asked about the brutality of [the regime], way back, when [Mousavi] was prime minister in the 1980s. The staffer answered, “We were all Ahmadinejads then.” After 6/12, we Iranians are all Mousavis now, even those who voted for Ahmadinejad, whether they know it yet or not.
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