The Iranian opposition leaders and Mehdi Mousavi Karoubi called on the government to "listen to the people", in two statements issued Wednesday, February 16 by several opposition websites. For its part, the power organizes a protest Friday against "sedition", the name he gives to the opposition. Thousands of people had defied a government ban and demonstrated on Monday in Tehran to call MM.
Moussavi and Karoubi, launching anti-government slogans. Many demonstrators were also arrested by police and two people were shot dead. Several others were injured. On Wednesday, clashes erupted between participants at the funeral of one victim and "a small number of people apparently linked" to the opposition, said the website of IRIB, the state television.
Government supporters had "forced [the opponents] to retreat, shouting slogans against the Monafeqin (" hypocrites ", a name designating the People's Mujahedin), the leading organization of armed struggle against the regime in Tehran, added the site . "I warn you, open your ears before it is too late and hear the voice of the people, began to power the reformist former president of Parliament Mehdi Karoubi in a letter published on its website.
"The hostility and violent actions against the demands of the population can help to maintain the current situation a while. Take the lesson of the fate of the powers that are distant from the people," said a Karoubi referring to the revolutions of the past few weeks in Egypt and Tunisia.
Calls for a trial and "severe punishment" of the reformist opposition leaders have proliferated in the last hours in the conservative camp to power in Iran, including in Parliament. Karoubi and former Prime Minister Mir Hossein Moussavi were placed under house arrest before Monday's demonstrations.
In a separate letter published on his site, Mr. Mousavi has criticized the authorities and welcomed Monday's demonstrations. Underlining the "independence" of the green movement, he dismissed the accusations saying that the power is linked to the opposition abroad, but he also criticized "the U.S.
and Zionists," who would take "advantage "the protest movement in Iran. 
Moussavi and Karoubi, launching anti-government slogans. Many demonstrators were also arrested by police and two people were shot dead. Several others were injured. On Wednesday, clashes erupted between participants at the funeral of one victim and "a small number of people apparently linked" to the opposition, said the website of IRIB, the state television.
Government supporters had "forced [the opponents] to retreat, shouting slogans against the Monafeqin (" hypocrites ", a name designating the People's Mujahedin), the leading organization of armed struggle against the regime in Tehran, added the site . "I warn you, open your ears before it is too late and hear the voice of the people, began to power the reformist former president of Parliament Mehdi Karoubi in a letter published on its website.
"The hostility and violent actions against the demands of the population can help to maintain the current situation a while. Take the lesson of the fate of the powers that are distant from the people," said a Karoubi referring to the revolutions of the past few weeks in Egypt and Tunisia.
Calls for a trial and "severe punishment" of the reformist opposition leaders have proliferated in the last hours in the conservative camp to power in Iran, including in Parliament. Karoubi and former Prime Minister Mir Hossein Moussavi were placed under house arrest before Monday's demonstrations.
In a separate letter published on his site, Mr. Mousavi has criticized the authorities and welcomed Monday's demonstrations. Underlining the "independence" of the green movement, he dismissed the accusations saying that the power is linked to the opposition abroad, but he also criticized "the U.S.
and Zionists," who would take "advantage "the protest movement in Iran.
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