Some 300 protesters marched on Tehran University chanting “Death to the dictator!” before being dispersed by police with tear gas. Authorities had pledged to “smash” any new demonstrations.
The Iranian government prevented the publishing of the opposition Etemad-e-Melli newspaper in its latest move to quash anti-government reporting in the country.
Iran’s Basij militia has asked prosecutors to investigate the role of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi in the protests that rocked the Islamic Republic after last month’s contested elections.
Iran’s Guardian Council confirmed President Ahmadinejad’s victory as police and Basij militiamen wielding batons and cables prevented protesters from gathering.
Iran’s electoral authorities insisted June 26 the disputed presidential vote was the cleanest ever, as the G8 urged Tehran to halt repression—but without questioning the poll results. “After 10 days of examination, we did not see any major irregularities,” Guardians… Read moreIran: ayatollah calls for death penalty for “rioters”
Defying a ban on protests, Mir Hossein Mousavi said threats would not stop him from pursuing his campaign to scrap the election results—as police carried out sweeps of opposition figures.
In response to Hugo Chávez’s expressions of support for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Venezuela’s Revolutionary Marxist Current issued a statement in “solidarity with the Iranian masses.”
New bloody street clashes took place outside the parliament building in Tehran, amid reports that Zahra Rahnavard—wife of opposition candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi—has been arrested.
While the fate of dozens of detained students remains in limbo, students at universities across Iran continue daily sit-ins to protests what they are calling the “electoral coup” of June 12.
Police again broke up protests in Tehran, as the Revolutionary Guards warned they would crush what they called “rioters” opposing the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
More evidence both of electoral fraud and an internecine struggle among Iran’s ruling clerics emerged this weekend, as security forces clashed with protesters in the streets of Tehran.
Conspiranoids and freedom-haters of the left and right alike are rushing to betray the Iranian protest movement. Bill Weinberg asks: Why is that?
