Security forces pursued the protesters and beat them in the street Valiasr. This has not prevented the crowd to return bins for erecting burning barricades.
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Nearly four weeks after the disputed presidential June 12, thousands of supporters of Mir Hossein Moussavi took to the streets of Tehran on Thursday, shouting "Death to the dictator", defying the authorities ''écraser promised to "any attempt to rally.
The governor of the province, Morteza Tamaddon, had vowed to''écraser" those who dare show up, according to the official news agency IRNA. Thursday afternoon, police uniforms and Basij militia were stationed in many intersections along the Rue de la Revolution and around Tehran University neighbor, who were among the places of rendezvous.
That did not stop the crowd to return bins for erecting burning barricades in some places but the police responded violently, with tear gas and batons. Security forces pursued the protesters and beat them in the street Valiasr, the largest north-south avenue in the city, witnesses said on condition of anonymity to protect themselves.
images broadcast by the state channel Press TV show women wearing scarves and young men repulsed, rubbing their eyes damaged by tear gas.
At Tehran University, a cordon of police prevented the crowd from reaching the gates without disperse protesters who shouted "Mir Hossein" or "death to the dictator", according to witnesses, who estimated the group to a thousand people. No arrests or injuries were reported. Residents have welcomed young activists chased.
At night, the "death to the dictator" has been launched from roofs, according to a ritual established by the pro-Mousavi and lasts about half an hour every evening.
These were the first major events for 11 days, but no comparison with the hundreds of thousands of people marched after the presidential election.
The regime had clearly taken a number of other measures to prevent rallies. The SMS service was inoperative on Thursday for the third consecutive day, apparently to block communications between protesters, as the strongest protest.
Authorities also closed the universities and decreed non-working days on Tuesday and Wednesday, citing the thick cloud of dust and pollution that blanketed the capital and other parts of the country. So on Thursday marking the start of the weekend in Iran, many have taken advantage of these vacation days from surprise to find a more enjoyable time.
Calls to demonstrate circulating for several days on the Internet social networking and other sites close to the opposition. The gatherings were to coincide with the anniversary Thursday in an attack on a Basij Tehran University dormitory in which a student was killed during the student protests of 1999. At least
20 demonstrators and seven militiamen were killed Basij in the crackdown that followed and a thousand people arrested. If the policy insures that most have been released, security forces continue to confront dozens of activists, journalists and bloggers. Foreign nationals are not spared, while Tehran accuses Western countries of stirring, even plotting the challenge.
apparent victim of these tensions, the French Reiss remained jailed Thursday in Evin prison, where the ambassador of France was able to visit him in the morning. The young woman of 23 years is " good health "but" concerned "about his fate, according to the head of French diplomacy Bernard Kouchner.
Arrested on 1 July when she was about to return to France, the French girl, reader of French for five months Isfahan, is accused of espionage for passing on the Internet photographs of events, according to French authorities.
Wednesday in L'Aquila (Italy), which holds the G-8, Nicolas Sarkozy had demanded The young woman is released "on the field." These methods are nothing more than blackmail, "ruled the French president.
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