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By not in system - AOL NewsTEHRAN, Iran (Dec. 7) - Iranian security forces fired on stone-throwing protesters in the center of the capital Sunday in one of the bloodiest confrontations in months, opposition Web sites and witnesses said. At least five people were killed. Some accounts of the violence in Tehran were vivid and detailed, but they could not be independently confirmed because of government restrictions on media coverage. Police, who denied using firearms, said dozens of officers were injured and more than 300 protesters were arrested. The dead included a nephew of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi, ...
Day of Reckoning Looms for Iran
By Joseph Schuman - AOL News(Dec. 24) -- Anti-government protests escalated in Iran even as authorities issued tougher threats to shut them down, as a day of reckoning for a re-energized reform movement loomed this weekend. The government on Thursday banned memorials for the late Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri that had been planned for the town of Kashan, south of Tehran, and warned that all public commemorations for the respected dissident cleric would be limited to the holy city of Qom and Montazeri's hometown, Najafabad. The ban and warnings come a day after police used tear gas and pepper spray on ...
Funeral for Dissident Iranian Cleric Turns Into a Mass Protest
By David Sessions - Politics DailyTens of thousand streamed into the streets of Qum, Iran, to mourn Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, one of the founders of the Islamic revolution in Iran who had more recently become aligned with the reform movement sweeping the country, the New York Times reports. But as the masses -- which some Iranian sources say numbered in the hundreds of thousands -- poured into the city, they began clashing with government security and Basij military officers, turning the funeral into a mass protest.Sunday was marked by hundred of demonstrators marching at Tehran University, chanting "Montazeri is ...
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