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Iran hardliners protest outside Karroubis house
[Al Arabiya Latest] A group of hardliners besieged the Tehran home of opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi, shouting death slogans and calling for him to be put on trial, reports said on Monday.The Fars news agency identified the small but vocal crowd which gathered on Sunday outside the building where Karroubi lives as "students and families of martyrs" of the Iran-Iraq war. Pictures carried by the pro-government Borna news agency showed the building had been defaced with red coloring and slogans pronouncing "Death to Karroubi" had been scribbled on the walls. The walls had also been plastered with death slogans against main opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi and former president Mohammed Khatami. "We want the judiciary to put the leaders of sedition on trial as soon as possible," Fars quoted the protesters as saying. They also denounced Karroubi as a "hypocrite" -- the term used by Iranian officials for the enemies of state. Some brandished placards that read "Karroubi is a Mossad agent" -- linking the two-time former parliament speaker to the intelligence service of Iran's arch foe Israel. A relative of Karroubi confirmed the incident to AFP and said the cleric would soon make a statement. Karroubi and Mousavi have led a protest movement against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad after his June re-election, which they reject as massively rigged. Karroubi was attacked by hardliners during Iran's annual revolution day rally on Feb. 11 and his car was shot at earlier in January in the city of Qazvin west of Tehran. Posted by: Fred 2010-03-16 |
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