Tuesday, June 23, 2009

In Tehran resumed protests.

Continuing: In Tehran, broke up a protest
SyuzhetyOppozitsiya against re Ahmadinedzhada22.06.2009Strazhi Islamic Revolution will disperse opposition-diversantovNa one of the central areas of Tehran have gathered about 200 supporters of the opposition. About AFP journalists said witnesses. The protests resumed on the opposition despite the fact that previously, as reported by Iranian state media, they were banned.
According to eyewitnesses, the demonstration of police trying to disperse. Previously, it was reported that during the unrest in Iran, were killed between 10 and 150 participants of protest actions. On 22 June it was reported that attempts to suppress the demonstrations of new military unit Corps of the Islamic Revolution (IRIS).
At the same time, representatives of the Italian Embassy in Tehran announced that they are ready to assist the victims of the opposition. This reports Reuters. According to Fox News, the eve of Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said that at a meeting of representatives of countries - members of the European Union on Wednesday in Stockholm, will discuss a plan of assistance to the injured demonstrators from foreign diplomats.
On Monday, the representative of the Iranian Foreign Ministry has accused Western countries of trying to unravel Iran, interfering in the internal political processes in the country. Iranian authorities have criticized the Western media, in particular, BBC News and Voice of America, accusing them of disseminating ideas of anarchy and vandalism. "
Note that prior to foreign media were banned to cover the protests of opposition in Iran. Representatives of television channels and news agencies complained that the Iranian authorities to hinder their work. There were also reports of the arrest of two Dutch journalists and that foreign reporters were among the victims of the crackdown of demonstrations.
The protests began in Tehran after the announcement of the results of presidential elections. According to official figures, the winner of the vote, which was held June 12, became acting president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. His rival, world-Hossein Mousavi said that the results of fraudulent and demanded new elections.
Iranian authorities have agreed to convert part of the votes. June 22, the Guardian Council announced that the elections had indeed been violated, which, however, does not affect the outcome of the vote.

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