Opposition party

Is Rafsanjani urging Mousavi to mount a political challenge to the supreme leader?

A political party affiliated with Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani, the former president and key member of the Iranian regime, on Sunday called on Mir-Hossein Moussavi, the opposition leader, to form a "political bloc" that would pursue a long-term campaign to undermine the "illegitimate" government.

Rafsanjani didn't directly criticize Khamenei -- that's still off-limits for a major Iranian political figure. But Khamenei has backed the election results and the Ahmadinejad government, and that makes him part of the "illegitimate" regime.