Ahmadi-nejad, saying the president has left the country isolated with his confrontational policies.
“Who gave you the authorization to leave Iran at odds with the whole world through your adventurist and confrontational policies?” the opposition website kaleme.com quoted Musavi as saying.
“Hold a referendum and let’s see if the people support these destructive policies or not,” he said.
Many members of the opposition—and even many conservatives—have complained that Ahmadi-nejad is causing endless problems for Iran with his thumb-in-your-eye rhetoric and railings against the Western world. While many people enjoy the language and the spankings given to foreigners, many politicians say such talk isn’t intelligent and simply makes it much harder for Iran to do business with the rest of the world and accomplish its goals.
“It sounds good what he says,” commented one critic, “but it comes at a high cost.”
Musavi said, “The regime is suffering from dangerous illusions and is in the process of burning all of its bridges, large and small.”
Musavi has made this point in passing before, but his emphasis on it Tuesday appeared to reflect widespread unease over the address Ahmadi-nejad made to the UN General Assembly last month in which he suggested that Washington might have had a hand in the September 11, 2001, attacks in the United States.