Police use teargas and fire weapons as Iran protests flare again

[Turborama]

Source: Guardian

Clashes in Tehran come after Revolutionary Guard warns demonstrators to be 'prepared for confrontation'

Mark Tran, Robert Tait and agencies

Police in Tehran today attacked hundreds of demonstrators with teargas and fired weapons into the air after the protesters defied a warning from the Revolutionary Guard that it would crush any further protests.

As helicopters hovered overhead, hundreds of police moved to disperse about 200 protesters gathered at Haft-e-Tir Square, the scene of huge demonstrations last week.

Witnesses said police prevented any groups, even small ones, from gathering. At the underground station by the square, police prevented people from standing still, asking them to keep walking and separating those who were walking together.

The new clashes came as the authorities admitted irregularities in the disputed presidential poll had occurred on a much wider scale than previously disclosed.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/22/iran-protests-revolutionary-guard

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Not so sure that they'd be 'firing weapons into the air' after what we've been witnessing. Has anyone got some news direct from Iran lately?

[Turborama]

1. CNN: Riot police confront protesters in Tehran, witnesses say

TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- A defiant and chaotic protest sprouted in and around a public square Monday despite a warning by Iran's Revolutionary Guard against the kind of street demonstrations that have roiled Iran for more than a week, witnesses said.

Thousands of Iranians congregated and passed through Haft-e Tir Square, but riot police and the pro-government Basij militia confronted them as they smacked their batons against their shin guards, making loud cracking sounds that seemed like gunshots, the witnesses said.

Most stores around the square were closed as the unrest reverberated, with some guarding against damage by erecting steel fences on their windows.

Helicopters hovered overhead as the security forces wielded batons and used a spray to push the crowd out of the square. After that, police chased down demonstrators in nearby alleys and streets, with protesters and lawmen playing cat and mouse over several tension-filled hours until the crowd began to thin out around dusk.

Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/22/iran.election/index.html

[ohio2007]

2. Injured young students die in Iran by BASIJIS (video)

Young students die in Iran by BASIJIS gun fire.


And, if they make it to the hospital, they are being arrested!!!!!



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npdISZUtdmU