Police Unleash Force On Rally in Tehran  By Thomas Erdbrink and
William Branigin Washington Post Foreign Service Sunday, June
21, 2009    Opposition candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, who
asserts that he was cheated of victory in the June 12 election,
said his supporters in the streets were "facing unrighteous
liars."  Mousavi, in a statement posted on his campaign Web
site, seemed to seek to avoid a direct confrontation with
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, who warned
protesters Friday of potential "bloodshed" if they continued
mass street demonstrations. Mousavi said the way to restore calm
on the streets was for the government to "not only allow for
peaceful protests, but to encourage them."  Amid severe
restrictions on news media reporting of the protests and
conflicting accounts coming out of Tehran on Saturday, some
reports suggested Mousavi was taking a more confrontational
stance. The Reuters news agency reported him as saying he was
"ready for martyrdom" and vowing to continue his protest m