Iran opposition to hold anti-government rally

Its turn of Iran opposition leaders say that their planned anti-government march on Monday will go ahead, as they see it as an expression of their solidarity with the Egyptian people.“There are no plans to cancel it,” Ardeshir Amir Arjomand, senior political adviser to the opposition leader Mir Hussein Moussavi, said in a statement published Sunday on opposition Web sites.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad welcomed the emergence of a “new Middle East”, but has pledged to quash planned opposition protests in his country and administration has detained tens of journalists, young student and members which close to the opposition leadership to fail the opposition endeavor of Monday anti-government march:

Mehdi Karroubi said “If they are not going to allow their own people to protest, it goes against everything they are saying, and all they are doing to welcome the protests in Egypt is fake,”

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps warned as its senior commander Hossein Hamadani said: “The conspirators are nothing but corpses.Any incitement will be dealt with severely.”