Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Conservative lawmakers in Iran want opposition leaders executed

VOA: 'Lawmakers in Iran have called for the execution of two opposition leaders who supported Monday's rallies in Tehran.

The conservative lawmakers said Tuesday opposition leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi should be tried for sedition, an offense punishable by death.

State TV showed some 50 conservative MPs marching through parliament's main hall on Tuesday, chanting "Death to Mousavi, death to Karroubi."

The two reformists had called Monday's rallies in Tehran and elsewhere to show solidarity with recent Arab uprisings against authoritarian governments.'

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