Opposition in call for protest on Iran anniversary

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TEHRAN — Opposition heads on Saturday implicitly called for demonstrations on the February 11 anniversary of Iran's Islamic revolution, as the elite Revolutionary Guards warned that any such protest will be crushed.

Iran, meanwhile, put on trial 16 anti-government protesters, two of them women, who were arrested in late December on the Shiite mourning day of Ashura, the official IRNA news agency reported.

Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, who have spearheaded protests against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, met and invited supporters to demonstrate on the anniversary day, Karroubi's website Sahamnews.org said.

The two opposition leaders said Thursday's hangings of two dissidents, Mohammad Reza Ali Zamani and Arash Rahmani Pour, for allegedly plotting to topple the Islamic regime after Iran's election dispute broke out in June was a bid to keep people away from the February 11 demonstration.

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demonstrations on the February 11 anniversary of Iran’s Islamic revolution, as the elite Revolutionary Guards warned that any such protest will be crushed.

Can the mullahs really be this stupid?
How are the protestors to be separated
from ordinary citizens?
All repression will do is pull more uncommitted people
to the opposition’s side, especially when they feel
the batons on their own heads.

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