Iran"s reformist leader, Mir Hossein Mousavi...

"I am not afraid to die for people"s demands," he said in a statement, published on the Kaleme website on Friday.

Mousavi"s remarks come after a number of rallies were held in support of the government on Wednesday, with some demonstrators calling for execution of opposition leaders. In addition, a previously unknown hard-line group had posted an online statement claiming that opposition leaders would be assassinated by suicide squads if they are not prosecuted by the state within a week.

The Intelligence Ministry of Iran also said in a statement on Thursday that "it will take the necessary steps to deal with those who incite riots and violence in the country," the Press TV has said.

According to the payvand.com website, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) had earlier released a statement, in which it called the protests "conspiracy and disturbance" and said its organizers "must sooner or later pay the price of insulting the holy beliefs of the Iranian

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