Monday, June 22, 2009

The rioters set fire to a mosque in Tehran.

SyuzhetyOppozitsiya to re Ahmadinedzhada21.06.2009V riots in Tehran were killed 19 demonstrantovKommentariiSituatsiya close to revolyutsionnoy16.06.2009Vlasti Iran agreed to review the outcome of vyborovUchastniki riots that began after the presidential elections in Iran set fire to a mosque in the capital. Iranian state television has reported several fatalities in the fire, but later the information was denied, transmits AFP.
Earlier, CNN television reported, citing sources at a hospital in Tehran, as a result of clashes with demonstrators by police on Saturday killed 19 people. Iranian television has circulated information about the 10 dead. According to unconfirmed reports, the total number of victims of the clashes of all time protests reached 150 people.
Hundreds of demonstrators arrested. On Sunday it was reported on the arrest of several members of an armed group "People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran" (Mujahedeen-e Khalq). Iranian authorities have accused the detainees in the preparation of terrorist acts. Also reported on the arrest of two journalists who worked for newspapers that support Iran's reformists.
In Saturday was attended by thousands of rioting supporters of former Prime Minister of Iran's world-Hossein Mousavi, who lost the presidential election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Moussaoui Supporters argue that the results of the voting was rigged.
Police to disperse the demonstrators with tear gas, batons and water cannons. Witnesses reported dozens injured in clashes with police.

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