The 1990's and the early 21rst century saw fake moderates and fake reformists as president. The fake moderate is Hishemi Rafsanjani, who in 2001, after being president, called for a nuclear attack on Israel. Rafsanjani said:

If one day, the Islamic world is also equipped with weapons like those that Israel possesses now, then the imperialists' strategy will reach a standstill because the use of even one nuclear bomb inside Israel will destroy everything. However, it will only harm the Islamic world. It is not irrational to contemplate such an eventuality. Of course, you can see that the Americans have kept their eyes peeled and they are carefully looking for even the slightest hint that technological advances are being made by an independent Islamic country. If an independent Islamic country is thinking about acquiring other kinds of weaponry, then they will do their utmost to prevent it from acquiring them. Well, that is something that almost the entire world is discussing right now.

Rafsanjani was president from 1989-1997. During his presidency, Iran carried out two deadly terrorist attacks on Argentina. Iran carried out the deadly terrorist attack on the Israeli embassy in 1992 and on the Jewish Community Center in 1994. The attacks were directed and approved by the Supreme leader Ali Khamenei. Rafsanjani played a role in the attacks and was every bit an accomplice. As a result of the attacks, Iranian officials including Rafsanjani went on arrest warrents.
In 1997, Mohammad Khatami became president. After the attack that killed the notorious executioner and torturer Assadollah Lajevardi, Khatami praised him. Khatami made a whole eulogy out of the guy. Khatami said:

Once again the evil
hands of murderers martyred one of the hard-working soldiers of
the Revolution and a servant of the people and the state. The
government of the Islamic Republic of Iran will use all its resources

to fight the wicked terrorists and calls on the intelligence and security
officials to identify vigilantly the perpetrators of this crime as soon
as possible to have them punished for their heinous deed.

Khatami was president from 1997-2005. During the 2006 Lebanon war, he called Hezbollah, the Iranian regime's proxy terror group in Lebanon, "a shining sun that illuminates and warms the hearts of all Muslims and supporters of freedom in the world".
Under their own presidencies, they were big time accomplices for the Iranian regime's oppression and terror. Both Rafsanjani and Khatami refused to revoke Khomeini's fatwa that calls for the death of the British author Salmon Rushdie for his book "The Statanic Verses".
This is one fake moderate and fake reformist torch that was carried out. The fake reformist torch has been passed to Mir Hossein Mousavi, the current Presidential candidate for the 2009 election. Mousavi gives cheap lipservice for freedom, democracy and peace. But nothing in his history demonstrates this.
Mousavi served as Prime Minister for the Khomeinist regime from 1981-1989. He was a big time accomplice for the Iranian regime's bloodshed. The book "Myth of Moderation: Iran under Khatami", which was published just after Khatami's election victory, describes Mousavi as "an advocate of the most fascist internal policies, enmity
to peace and a proponent of export of terrorism. Moussavi is a strong
supporter of state-controlled economy and many bloody explosions,
kidnapping and other terrorist crimes in Lebanon were carried out
when he was Prime Minister".
A column on Newsmax by Kenneth Timmerman that's titled "'Reformist' Iranian candidate founded Hezbollah shows" some of the evidence that Mousavi was an accomplice in the Iranian regime's founding of Hezbollah. The column reports:

A former Iranian intelligence officer, Abdolghassem Mesbahi, tells Newsmax that he used to work for Mousavi when Mousavi headed the regime’s intelligence services as Iran’s prime minister.

Today’s reformer was yesterday’s terrorist, he says.

“Mir Hossein Mousavi was one of the founders of Hezbollah. Ayatollah Khomeini put him on the Hezollah leadership council when the group was created in 1982-1983."

During that time, Mousavi called for the founding of a terrorist group in order to fight Israel. The Newsmax column continues as saying:

In an interview with Payane Enghelab magazine in 1981, Mousavi called for the creation of an Iranian-controlled Lebanese militia to spearhead a military confrontation with Israel.

“We are ready to participate with an armed force to fight Israel,” he said. “We have repeatedly announced that we are ready to have an actual, real and military presence in Southern Lebanon and on the borders of the occupied Palestinian lands,” a euphemism for Israel.

In an interview with Frontpage Magazine, a pro-democracy Iranian student activist who was a former political prisoner for the Khomeinist regime in Iran and who headed the 1999 pro-democracy student uprising said this about Mousavi:

Mir-Hossein Mousavi was a student studying architecture during the Shah's regime at Tehran University.  Two years after the revolution (1981), he was nominated as the Prime Minister by Khomeini.  He was responsible, as head of the Council of Cultural Revolution, for shutting down the entire university system for four years.  Starting in 1988, on the orders of Khomeini, a council was formed, with Mousavi as a member, to revise the regime's constitution to drastically increase the powers of the supreme leader. 

Mousavi's socialist ideology became very apparent during the 1980s when he initiated Islamic Socialist policies such as subsidized food coupons, oil coupons and converting private enterprises into government controlled entities.  Mousavi was also responsible for mass executions during the early and the late 80s when tens of thousands were executed and their bodies dumped into mass graves.  Now after twenty years he has re-emerged as a candidate for the Islamic Republic's presidency.

Does that sound like any true moderate to any of you guys? Does that sound like a true reformist? My answer is no. Mousavi was an accomplice to the notorious execution of 30,000 political prisoners. It happened in 1988, when he was still the Prime Minister. In Iranian universities, students denounced him for that. He kept dodging students' questions about his responsibility over the barbaric executions.

Mousavi went on to being the chief advisor for Mohammad Khatami. He serves in the Expediency Discernment Council. He even vows to continue Iran's nuclear weapons program.

Mousavi, with his gruesome past as an accomplice to the Iranian regime's most heinous crimes overlooked, is praised in the media as the reformist who could possibly beat Ahmadinejad. Many people are saying that they hope Ahmadinejad will lose. I agree that Ahmadinejad certainly is a monster for the Iranian regime. He's not even the only man in Iran's regime. He's the president, not the Supreme Leader. Ahmadinejad is the personification of Iran's terrorist regime and also has a history of terrorism, mass murder and tortures. He was an IRGC [Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps] terrorist. He did commit some of the most gruesome acts of terrorism. But Mousavi is not any less of an accomplice than him. Mousavi was in a higher position at that time. He was the Prime Minister.

Mousavi and Ahmadinejad are two sides of the same coin, the coin of radical Islam, Jihad and terror. It is the coin that continues to oppress the Iranian people. The Mullahs fear having truly free elections because they could get kicked out of power. If the Mullahs did have truly free elections, the Iranian regime would be kicked out in a heart beat. And then "un-islamic" policies will then take hold. 

Iranian presidential candidates can only run with the regime's approval. The only way to get that approval is to be a Shia male who holds the same views as the Iranian regime. Dictators don't like being challenged. Having a moderate as president presents a challenge to Khamenei and his reactionary bakward interpretation of Islam. The President is essentially the Supreme Leader's puppet. The president has the second most powers to the Supreme Leader. Ahmadinejad losing in the election is no cause for celebration because the same regime is in power with same policies. The only differences between well-known "hardliners" like Ahamdinejad and the fake reformists like Khatami and Mousavi is the tactics in achieving their goals. The fake reformists just use more deception and more cheap lipservice. The fake reformists like Khatami and Mousavi and Ahmadinejad still seek to have Iran develop nuclear weapons to be used for the global jihad and for their form of Islam to take over the world. The question is how much taqqiyya and how much cheap lipservice will be used. As I said, in Iran, it is radical Islam's version of democracy, not real democracy. Democracy grants political and social freedom, not just elections. In a democracy, elections are free and fair and not under control of any Supreme leader. The Iranian regime has a fake reformist and fake moderate faction, with guys like Rafsanjani, Khatami and Mousavi repeatedly duping gullible people in the west with their deception and cheap lipservice. "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me". What about when being fooled a million times? That's what the fake moderates and the fake reformists are doing to analysts in the west, fooling them a million times.