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BY YIQIAN ZHANG
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Iranian lawmakers are calling for the deaths of two opposition leaders, whom they blame for recent unrest in Tehran. Lawmakers chanted “death to Mousavi, death to Karroubi” -- 222 lawmakers later signed a statement calling them “corrupts on earth,” a death penalty charge for dissidents in Iran.
Wanna know what the fuss is all about? CTV says, protests -- all across the Middle East -- have spilled into the streets of Tehran.
"Thousands and thousands of people came to the streets of Tehran and 11 other cities...and there were clashes, one demonstrator was killed by security forces and 60 to 70 were injured, and there were hundreds of arrests."
The government is blaming the two leaders for the unrest. And the Iranian government says, the U.S. and Israel also share the blame. Israel’s YnetNews quotes Iranian Parliament chairman Ali Larijani.
"How did the gentlemen (Mousavi and Karroubi)... fall into the orchestrated trap of America? Should they not have been cautious given the support, pleasure and joy of America and Israel…?”
An Iranian lawmaker tells semi-official news agency Fars News the Western plot is destined to fail.
“The Iranophobia policy is an old and failed weapon which has yielded no result despite the huge investment made in this project by the world arrogant powers during the last three decades.”
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tells CBS News, the Iranian regime is hypocritical for praising unrest in Egypt, and condemning it at home.
HILLARY CLINTON: “What we see happening in Iran today is a testament to the courage of the Iranian people, and an indictment of the hypocrisy of the Iranian regime - a regime which over the last three weeks has constantly hailed what went on in Egypt.”
CNN echoes, saying it’s not the first time the Iranian government tried to blame. The West for its own problem, referring to previous protests in 2009.
ANDERSON COOPER: "…peaceful protests were met by government forces uniformed in plain clothes and sometimes by government supporters chanting “death to Israel, death to America. We’ve seen these tactics before trying to deflect attention onto foreign enemies, trying to spread the notion that outside forces were the problem, Iranian regime telling the same lies Mubarak told as well, trying to shift the blame, dodging accountability.”
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