"Mousavi and Karroubi should be executed! Death to Mousavi, Karroubi and Khatami!"

Iran foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast told reporters on Tuesday that comments made by American officials these days emanate from confusion and distraction due to the changes in the region.

"The changes have inflicted a blow to the interest of the dominating powers and the backers of the Zionist regime. By making such diversive comments they try to dismiss the issue," he said.

On Monday, Clinton praised the protesters on Tehran streets. "We wish the opposition and the brave people in the streets across cities in Iran the same opportunity that they saw their Egyptian counterparts seize in the last week," she said.

Mehmanparast said people in the region wanted freedom from US interference. "The changes the people in the region want are that big powers must stop interfering in their affairs and cutting of dependence on America and the Zionist regime and their allies," he said.

Lawmakers on Tuesday demanded opposition leaders be hanged following violent anti-government protests in Tehran which left one person killed. The MPs singled out Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, who had called for protests in Tehran on Monday in support of Arab uprisings that quickly turned into anti-government demonstrations and ended in clashes with police.
  
"Mousavi and Karroubi should be executed! Death to Mousavi, Karroubi and Khatami!" the lawmakers shouted in the house, state news agency IRNA reported. They said the United States, Britain and Israel had orchestrated Monday's protests using the opposition leaders, who, according to parliament speaker Ali Larijani were being "misled" by Iran's arch-foes.
  
"The parliament condemns the Zionists, American, anti-revolutionary and anti-national action of the misled seditionists," Larijani told the parliament. "How did the gentlemen (Mousavi and Karroubi) ... fall into the orchestrated trap of America?" he asked. "Should they not have been cautious given the support, pleasure and joy of America and Israel as well as monarchists and Monafeghin?" Larijani added, referring to the outlawed People's Mujahedeen of Iran (PMOI).
  
He also urged that a committee to be formed to probe and "confront" the opposition movement.