Interesting the way people swing wildly from overenthusiasm about Mousavi to a dismissal of him as Ahmadinejad Lite.

It seems that if he were in charge he would certainly pursue nuclear power for Iran--but he has also been quoted as saying, that as for the nuclear question: "The second issue is related to concerns about the diversion of this program towards weaponization. Personally I view this second part, which is both technical and political, negotiable." (interview with Time magazine this past Friday, as reported in WSJ 17 June 2009 (today).

And I don't think he has denied the Holocaust.

Since one of the main goals here, perhaps the main one, is to convince Israel it need not attack Iran to deal with a perceived nuclear threat, Mousavi would be progress over Mr A. Especially if Mr. A is now trying to accumulate more power.

Perhaps the most significant question in all this, as I noted earlier, is Khamenei's views on these issues.