mr. musavid is asking for. >> in the financial times they said rallies must stop. it almost sounds like an ultima ultima ultima ultima ultimateum. the rallies must stop? >> for those that do follow the supreme leader. it is surprising. he is known to stay above the fray. he doesn't want to get involved in personal conflicts. normally one would expect him to say there seems to be a problem, go and solve it. and this has been his way. it is surprising that in the speech, i thought he would focus on the turn out and the fact that the turnout is a testament to the legitimacy of the regime and the stuff that was made president. he went up supported president ahmadinejad, which he has been supporting, which is something that is rare, if you follow his actions. he has been supporting him. in some way, he has stuck his neck out. it is standing against a big portion of the iranian population, which again, as i said before is extremely rare to do that. i think more than anything, that signals a major risk internally. host: the continued resolution. the attempted resolution o

mr. musavid, the challenger, has been able to form the protests and rallies. he was a former prime minister during the iran-iraq war. he was extremely possible with ayatollah, the founder of the islamic state. he has the credentials, if you will. he is part of the system. he needs that kind of leader. that will give excuse to the authorities to pour out and say this is another revolution. we will beat you down. the second thing, i think, is it needs to expand beyond some other major cities to have some major impact. i have a feeling that some of the reports we have gotten from some of the cities in hamas and sheran, they're acting a little wit, the governmental affiliated sources are acting more brutally in other cities because there is not much report coming out of those cities as much as we see and hear out of tehran. so these two things need to take place for this to become a major movement that would impact -- that would have such an impact to change the regime of maybe not fundamentally, but to a degree that, you know, we can say that this was the moment