DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A protracted-detained opposition chief in Iran is asking for a nationwide referendum about whether or not to write down a brand new structure for the Islamic Republic amid nationwide protests shaking the nation.

Mir Hossein Mousavi’s name, posted late Saturday by the opposition Kaleme web site, included him saying he didn’t imagine Iran’s present system giving ultimate say to a supreme chief labored any longer. These below Supreme Chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei have been cracking down on demonstrators because the protests started in September after the loss of life of Mahsa Amini, a Kurdish-Iranian girl earlier detained by the nation’s morality police.