“Five thousand innocent people were executed when you were in the government in the 1980s,” one woman told Muhammad Atrianfar a journalist who worked for Mr. Moussavi when he was prime minister in that period. “Why?” Mr. Atrianfar seemed surprised by the question. “My friends, at the beginning of the Islamic revolution we were all like Ahmadinejad, but we changed our path and our way,” he said, earning a round of applause from the audience.
