What motivated him: anger, or that desire to place himself at the centre of the action?
Monday's rally by Mr. Moussavi's supporters was motivated partly by anger at Mr. Ahmadinejad, whose campaign rescheduled its own rally in a way that displaced an event by Mr. Moussavi.
That would reflect the so-called enthusiasm gap nationally, in which liberals, frustrated by Mr. Obama's failure to meet expectations, have seemed less motivated than conservatives angered by government spending and bailouts.
Last month, a crowd stormed the Israeli Embassy in Cairo, motivated, in part, by anger over the killing of five Egyptian security officers in August when Israeli troops pursued militants into Egypt after an attack killed eight people in Israel.
When Americans post "never forget," they are expressing a range of emotions, but among them is the same understandable anger that motivated Sam Houston's soldiers who exclaimed "Remember the Alamo!" while visiting a merciless slaughter upon Mexican soldiers, even after the Mexicans began trying to surrender.
Uzo Aduba, who plays Suzanne Crazy Eyes Warrenen on "Orange Is the New Black" had one of the most complex, anger-motivated scenes of any major character on TV this year, but for the actress, provoking conversation is the whole point.
Anger was what motivated her to write for newspapers as a teen-ager and to make documentary films as an adult, and it is the reaction she habitually tries to provoke in audiences.
Maybe they could issue a statement saying that while the shooting was not politically motivated, there is a lot of anger out there and they wanted to address it together.
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Before a packed court, Mr. Vaxevanis and his lawyers portrayed him as the target of a politically motivated campaign aimed at damping the public anger at Greek officials.
