Iranian MPs Call for Death of Mousavi and Karroubi

 Members of Iran’s Majlis, or Parliament, have taken a very strict tone regarding yesterday’s protests. Members of the Majlis are mostly supporters of the theocratic regime and are likely to parrot official beliefs of the Mullahs. These members are actively calling for the death of opposition leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and  Mehdi Karroubi. Both ran in 2009′s fradulent presidential election against hardliner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. This is an unsettling but not altogether unexpected development:

Mousavi

Police blocked access to Mr Mousavi’s home in what the former prime minister’s website said was intended to prevent him attending the Tehran rally, which was lauded by the US administration.
Both he and Mr Karroubi – a former speaker of parliament and a senior cleric – disputed the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in June 2009, which triggered protests that drew the largest crowds in Iran since the Islamic Revolution in 1979.
The authorities responded by launching a brutal crackdown.

This is disturbing. If Mousavi can get out of his sem-house arrest, hopefully there will be more protests.

Cross-posted at World Threats.

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