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"We stand beside you," German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in remarks directed to "all in Iran who seek to demonstrate peacefully."
British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, whose government expelled two Iranian diplomats earlier this week after Iran did the same to two British envoys, told the British Broadcasting Corp. there is a "crisis of credibility between the Iranian government and their own people."
On Wednesday, Mousavi met with 70 university professors, the Web site said. The professors, among a group pushing for a more liberal form of government, were detained after the meeting, but it was not clear where the professors were taken, the site said. I hate this muther fkahMousavi also defended himself and his movement, identified by the color green, against the barrage of claims on state media about foreign hands behind the unrest. "The green movement is not dependent on foreigners," he said.
Mousavi's comments came as Ahmadinejad reiterated complaints about foreign interference, singling out Obama and comparing him to former President George W. Bush, in a statement quoted by Iranian state television.
"We expect nothing from the British government and other Europeans governments, whose records and backgrounds are known to everybody and who have no dignity, but I wonder why Mr. Obama, who has come with the slogan of change, has fallen into this trap, the same route that Mr. Bush took and experienced its ending," Ahmadinejad said.
Ahmadinejad, who is to be sworn in for a second four-year term by August, warned that there would be "nothing left to talk about" if Obama kept up such a tone. "This will not have any result, except that the people will consider you similar to Bush," he said.
