Iran opposition leader 'ready to pay any price' for change

[Turborama]

Source: Jerusalem Post Staff & Associated Press

02/16/2011 10:29

Karroubi statement follows lawmakers' calls for his execution; Ahmadinejad acknowledges "there's a lot of hostility against the gov't," but says protest leaders "want to tarnish the Iranian nation's brilliance."

An Iranian opposition leader who became the target of death threats by lawmakers said Wednesday that he is willing to pay any price for trying to bring democratic change to the country.

Hard-line lawmakers called for Mahdi Karroubi and two other prominent pro-reform figures to be brought to trial and put to death in response to demonstrations earlier in the week. Two protesters were killed in clashes with police in the demonstrations.

Karroubi said Wednesday on his website, sahamnews.net, that he was willing to "pay any price" to bring social and political changes to Iran. He is one of several leaders of a protest movement that grew out of the disputed presidential election in 2009.

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