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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Iran's Mousavi ready to die for opposition cause AFP - Saturday, January 2 Send IM Story Print TEHRAN (AFP) - – Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi said on Friday that he was ready to sacrifice his life in his campaign for reform after the disputed June re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. "I am not unwilling to become a martyr like those who made that sacrifice after the election for their rightful national and religious demands," Mousavi said in his first statement on his Kaleme.org website since deadly clashes on Sunday. "My blood is no redder than theirs," he added. Mousavi's nephew, Ali, was among at least eight people who died during Sunday's opposition protests during Shiite Muslim rituals for Ashura. The opposition head's website carried a call from "political prisoners" in Tehran's Evin jail for the public to hold a memorial on Sunday to mourn those who died during the protests. He called on Ahmadinejad's government to halt its crackdown against his supporters, which saw hundreds of people arrested during last Sunday's demonstrations. The former prime minister urged the government "to take responsibility for the problems it has created in the country... release political prisoners... and recognise people's right to lawful assembly." He rejected demands from hardliners for him to renounce his accusations of fraud in the June election in which he was Ahmadinejad's main challenger. "I clearly and explicitly say that the order to execute, kill or jail (former parliament speaker and pro-reform presidential candidate Mehdi) Karroubi, Mousavi and people like us will not solve anything. "Supposedly you calmed things down through your arrests, violence, threats and closure of newspapers and other media. What appreciation does that show for the change in public opinion about the Islamic republic?" Mousavi rejected charges by Ahmadinejad and other officials that he and his supporters were "lackeys" of Iran's Western foes. "We are neither Americans nor Britons. We have sent no congratulations cards to the leaders of major powers," he said, in mocking allusion to a card the Iranian president sent to Barack Obama on his election as US president in 2008. "We are loyal to the constitution," he added, dismissing accusations by hardliners that the opposition's protests against Ahmadinejad's re-election have turned into a campaign to topple the Islamic regime. "We want an honest and compassionate government that considers diversity of opinion and the popular vote to be opportunities, not threats. "We consider invasion of people's privacy, interrogations, ransackings, newspaper closures and restrictions on what is published to be violations of the constitution." Mousavi proposed that to resolve the crisis "the government announce it will be directly accountable before the nation, parliament and the judiciary and not demand unconditional support regardless of its shortcomings or weaknesses." Earlier this week, senior cleric Ayatollah Ahmad Alamolhoda told opposition leaders to "repent" or be declared "enemies of God," which carries the death sentence if there is a conviction. The fourth candidate in the June election -- former Revolutionary Guards chief Mohsen Rezai -- hailed Mousavi's comments as a basis for a compromise between the opposition and regime hardliners. He wrote to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei asking him to intervene to broker a solution. "Mr Mir Hossein's retreat from rejection of Mr Ahmadinejad's government and his constructive proposal that parliament and the judiciary act based on their legal duty to make the government accountable... was late but can be a new start to unite the protesters with the rest," the ISNA news agency quoted Rezai as saying in the letter. "A message from you or advice through a speech can strengthen... the new movement which has started for unity and forgiveness," Rezai said. But hardline cleric Ahmad Khatami slammed Mousavi's statement as a new provocation. "There is no crisis in the country and you are creating a crisis. Stop it!" the ISNA news agency quoted him as saying. Hardline cleric Ahmad Janati criticised the pace at which opposition supporters detained during Sunday's protests were being put on trial. "The judiciary must allocate more judges to this -- revolutionary judges, not weak ones," he said. But Tehran prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi said the first trials would open soon. "Investigations are rapidly being carried out regarding defendants who committed offences on this day and soon some of these cases will be sent to court with their indictments," the official IRNA news agency quoted him as saying. 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