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Pro-Government Iranians Call for Death of Opposition Leaders

   VOA News  February 18, 2011

Photo: AP

   Leaders  of Iranian opposition, Mahdi Karroubi, right, and Mir Hossein
   Mousavi talk in Tehran, Iran (October 2009 file photo)

   Thousands of worshippers at prayer services in Tehran are chanting and
   calling  for the execution of two Iranian opposition leaders, ahead of
   a pro-government rally expected Friday.
   The  Muslim worshipers called for the death of Mir Hossein Mousavi and
   Mahdi  Karroubi,  two leaders of the opposition Green Movement.  Both
   lost  their presidential bids in 2009 to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
   and are under house arrest.
   The  head of Iran's judiciary, Ayatollah Sadeq Larijani, said Thursday
   that  the  government  will  block  the opposition leaders from making
   statements in anti-government demonstrations planned for Sunday.
   Ayatollah    Larijani    said    the    government    will   prosecute
   "seditionists."Â  Sedition is a crime punishable by death in Iran. Â
   Opposition  websites have made calls for the nationwide rallies Sunday
   to  show  support  for Mousavi and Karroubi and to mourn the deaths of
   two people who died in Monday's anti-government protests.
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