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?
Security forces used tear gas and water cannons against protesters in Tehran, as a sucide blast at the Ayatollah Khomeini mausoleum left three dead and eight wounded.
Ayatollah Khamenei, in his address on the crisis, made corruption charges against the one man in a position to remove him—Hashemi Rafsanjani, leader of the Council of Experts.
Iran’s defeated candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, who led tens of thousands of protesters in a sixth day of demonstrations, faces a demand from Ayatollah Khamenei to join him in a call for “unity.”
International rights organizations say hundreds of activists and opposition figures have been detained in Iran in response to protests over the country’s disputed elections.
Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez is one of the few world leaders to stand by Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, even as hundreds of thousands take to the streets of Tehran to protest his re-election claim.
With a harsh media crackdown in place, word has been slow to get out of protests outside Tehran—but at least two are reported dead in Tabriz, capital of Azerbaijan province.
