Tehran Calling, Once Again

Meanwhile, as Egyptian opposition leaders and the military try to figure out what to do now, in Iran, tensions are mounting as another round of national protests are growing in force.

Iranian lawmakers urged judiciary on Tuesday to hand out death penalties to opposition leaders for fomenting unrest in the Islamic state after a rally in which one person was killed and dozens were wounded, state media said.

Clashes broke out between security forces and protesters when thousands of opposition supporters rallied in sympathy for popular uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia on Monday, reviving mass protests that shook Iran after a presidential vote in 2009.

"(Opposition leaders) Mehdi Karroubi and Mirhossein Mousavi are corrupts on earth and should be tried," the official IRNA news agency quoted lawmakers as saying in a statement.

The loose term "Corrupt on Earth," a charge which has been leveled at political dissidents in the past, carries the death penalty in the Islamic Iran.

Judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei said: "Those who created public disorder on Monday will be confronted firmly and immediately."

Can't really blame the Iranian regime, after all.  If Mubarak can be shown the door, well...there's a reason why Iran's leaders are very, very quickly ramping this up to "death penalty for opposition leaders" and whatnot.

Can't wait for Friday.