Call to execute 'rioters' in Iran

A leading Iranian religious leader has called for the execution of "rioters" who have led a series of anti-government protests following the country's disputed June 12 presidential election.

Ahmad Khatami, a member of Iran's Assembly of Experts, told worshippers during a sermon at Friday prayers that Iran's judiciary should charge such rioters as "mohareb", or one who wages war against God.

"Anybody who fights against the Islamic system or the leader of Islamic society, fight him until complete destruction," Khatami said in the nationally broadcast sermon at Tehran University.

"We ask that the judiciary confront the leaders of the protests, leaders of the violations, and those who are supported by the United States and Israel strongly, and without mercy to provide a lesson for all."

Khatami's comments came as the Guardian Council, Iran's electoral watchdog, dismissed opposition allegations of fraud during the election.

The council said on Friday that the vote was the country's "healthiest" since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

"After 10 days of examination, we did not see any major irregularities," Abbas Ali Kadkhodai, a Guardian Council spokesman, said.

"We have had no fraud in any presidential election and this one was the cleanest election we have had. I can say with certainty that there was no fraud in this election."

The statement leaves the opposition little room for further legal challenges over the election result, with the council previously rejecting a call for the vote to be annulled.

Supporters of Mir Hossein Mousavi, the main challenger to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's president, have led a series of mass demonstrations in the capital, Tehran, to protest against the results of the election.

At least 19 people are believed to have been killed in violent clashes between demonstrators and Iranian security forces.

Ghanbar Naderi, the economic and political editor of the state-owned Iran Daily newspaper, told Al Jazeera on Friday that the situation is now under control.

"Those who voted for Mr Mousavi in the capital have come to their senses now," he said.

"They are slowly getting along with the reality that yes, most of them voted for Mr Mousavi in the capital, but the rest of the country voted for Mr Ahmadinejad.

"After two weeks ... there are no violent demonstrations on the streets anymore and the last few people who used to take advantage of the situation have now been detained by the police forces and they will be put on special tribunal."

The protests have also led to a war of words between Iran and the US, which has criticised the conduct of the June 12 election.

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Barack Obama, the US president, has warned that Tehran wanted to blame the US for opposition protests.

But Ahmadinejad, Iran's president, called on Obama to "avoid interfering in Iran's affairs" during a speech broadcast on Iranian state television on Thursday.

"This is our friendly advice; we don't want to see the big disgraces of the Bush era to be repeated in the new US era," he said.

Ahmadinejad's speech came days after Obama said that he was "appalled and outraged" over threats, beatings and imprisonments of opposition protesters following the polls.

The latest comments by both presidents could complicate any attempt at a dialogue, which Washington hopes will include talks on the scope of Iran's nuclear programme.

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Hard-liner's apparent election fraud in tenth presidential election and declaring Ahmadinejad as president by supreme leader in fact was death of election and a end to all the opportunist reformists solutions and also made people to see the real(naked)face of the military fascism regime.Although that group of people who have not voted to Ahmadinejad look patsy and angry but it was really important historical lesson, they will never forget about it.

Election huge fraud and clear disregard to millions of people's votes showed legitimacy of people who sanctioned the election ,this was when reformists and the people who wanted to participate in election had made a hero from Mousavi and were saying that the real political active people do not do any thing and a way beyond people.

From the very first days of this election we announced that election in Iran dose not follow any democratic rules and is not similar to any election which happens in west.This election called selection from our side and we asked people not to participate in that.Islamic Republic of Iran faced this matter in the internal factions that has to make the internal of the government entirely from one faction and even to move all the internal opposing to the side.All the Mir-Hossein Mousavi,Khatami ,Hashemi and all opposing candidates is to take a part in the power division and share the public wealth.What has made Mousavi and his supporter team not to retreat in fact is to get what they want and not to defend people's rights.People participated in this election to get more freedom in veil, social and welfare.People participated in election to say a big"NO" to Ahmadinejad,supreme leader and a current situation in Iran But clear fraud and ignoring the basic people's freedom and selecting Ahmadinejad as a president made them to go out to the streets again.

Now it's revolutioner fighter's duty to warn angry people in the street and in the middle of a real war field with regime , to be aware of reformists imminent compromise. To be mentioned and considered that reformists faction are just using people's power as an advantage to force hardliners to share more wealth and power with them and after reaching their goal will be the first people to suppress the riots.Getting angry and uprising is not only because reformists lose the election by leader , actually this anger comes from thirty years suppression and strangulation and now it is freedom political fighter's duty to radicalize this huge opposing movement and guide people to deny and ignore the authoritarian regime.

We emphasize that the origins of protest is not to defend a particular regime faction because all the people who voted just wanted to prove that they do not want the fascism regime. This is a spontaneous overflow and none of the regime's factions(hardliners and reformists) are leading it and it is like a really powerful and huge flame which will be dead without a leader and a organization.

The most reliable way to lead and organize this spontaneously movement is a general strike.We support an unlimited general strike because it hands the power and creation to the workers and would be a great situation for following up radical and trade demands in life and work places as well.

The hardliner and reformists fake(demo) carnivals and regime controlled solutions will continue till they come to a common solution and compromise.The first things that will be objected by right faction(hardliners) to protesters would be chaos and violence.Before Regime fooled people to participate in a fake election(selection) and now people have to be aware of imminent promises from regime internal factions and not to be fooled again.

Re-election,re-count and none of the things that announced by opposing faction-Mousavi,Karoubbi-are not what really people want.Iranian people have said in their slogane "death to Islamic Republic" and "death to Khamenei" and that means their capacity is full and do not want this regime and government anymore.Mousavi can not lead this objection to keep the Islamic system safe and use it as an advantage for reformists faction and people will pass over him and go forward and we can see and feel it clearly at nights in Tehran and other cities that people are not of the same voice when they chant"GOD is great" but that is the voice of "Death to dictator" which can be heard really loud.

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