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Iran warns opposition rally may turn violent
2011-02-21
[Asharq al-Aswat] In an apparent attempt to discourage protesters, an Iranian pro-government news agency claimed on Sunday that armed opposition groups plan to fire on people participating in a rally set for Sunday afternoon.

The report from the hardline Fars news agency said that teams from the Mujahedeen Khalq, an Iraq-based Iranian opposition group, have entered the country to shoot people during the protest.

Iran's opposition has called for a rally Sunday to mark a week since the deaths of two people in Feb. 14 festivities between security forces and opposition protesters in Tehran. The opposition maintains the dead were killed by government forces.

Last week's rally called by opposition leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mahdi Karroubi in solidarity with the Egyptian uprising was the largest demonstration by the opposition in more than a year.

On Sunday Karroubi sent an open letter to judiciary reaffirming his backing for opposition demands on his website Sahamnews.net.

"God willing, there will be no doubt in Mahdi Karroubi continuing to defend the rights of Iranian people and I will stand by the people until my final moment," the statement said.

The opposition leader said hundreds of hardliners have gathered in front of his home over the past night and filled the air with anti-opposition chants and threats to his life.

Both opposition leaders have been under tight house arrest since calling the 2009 re-election of President Mahmoud Short Round Ahmadinejad fraudulent.

Hundreds of thousand of people poured into the streets in protest to the result of the election. Opposition says scores were killed in massive crackdown on the protest demonstration. Government brought the number to about 30.

Authorities jugged hundreds and sentenced about 80 of them to prison terms from six months to 15 years.
Posted by:Fred

#1  Looks like ISRAEL knows where all the Hezzies Hizzies Huzzies Hazzies Hassies went after Valentine's Day...

To wit,

* VARIOUS > e.g. ISRAEL NN > HEZBOLLAH ARMY HELP IRAN SUPPRESS MASSIVE RIOTS.

versus

* YNETNEWS > AHMADINEJAD: ENEMY [USA] DOESN'T FEAR NUCLEAR BOMBS, or Missles, but does fear the "SPIRIT" OF IRAN + IRANIAN REVOLUTION.

HMMM, HMMMM, wehell, I could be wrong but methinks MOUD just politely affirmed that ISLAMIST IRAN DESIRES ANY FUTURE OWG CALIPHATE = GLOBAL ISLAMIST-JIHADIST STATE TO BE NOT ONLY NUKULAAR [NucWeaps] BUT ALSO IRAN-, SHIA- DOMINATED???

SHIA-CENTRIC MUSLIM, WORLD, SPACE? ORDER???
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2011-02-21 22:22  

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