Large Crowd Outside Tehran's Bagha Mosque Chanting "Death to Khamenei" (?) - 06/28/09

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I could be wrong, can anyone else work out what they're chanting?

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1. At least we did not hear gun shots

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2. Update

Al Jazeera English: Iranian police 'beat protesters'

Iranian security forces have used tear gas and batons to disperse about 3,000 protesters after they gathered in northern Tehran, witnesses say.

The demonstration outside the Ghoba mosque on Sunday saw the first unrest in four days.

Authorities had allowed the gathering to go ahead as it had officially been called to mark a bombing in 1981 that killed 70 people. But police broke up the crowds after they began chanting "Where is my vote?" and "Ya Hussein, Mir Hossein", linking Mir Hossein Mousavi, the reformist candidate, to the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad.

Indiscriminate assault

A student, who called himself Mohammed, told Al Jazeera that about 500 riot police and pro-government militia attacked the protesters on Sunday. "It is no different if you are a woman or a man or children, they are just beating us ... they don't care if you are saying anything or just standing they just beat us," he said by phone from Tehran.

More: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/06/2009628192214829335.html

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3. Thanks for posting

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4. Presidential Candidate Mehdi Karroubi Arriving at the Protest

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaMqJ6J6NNs

LA Times: Thousands of Iranians ignore threats, march in rally

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According to a witness who has previously provided accurate information to The Times, numerous opposition figures attended the rally, including presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi; Mousavi's wife, Zahra Rahnavard; and both the daughter and wife of Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a Mousavi supporter.

The witness said pro-government Basiji militiamen and plainclothes security officials on motorcycles surrounded the rally and that Mousavi himself addressed the gathering by cellphone, which was attached to a megaphone, but the witness could not hear what he said.

Protesters flashed victory signs as they filled the mosque and surrounding side streets. A female protester, covered completely by a black chador, taunted some of the police.

"Who are you?" she demanded, according to the witness. "Are you Muslims?"

Dumbfounded security officials stood and watched, the witness said.

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Full article: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iran29-2009jun29,0,877375.story


Presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi, center, joins thousands of supporters
of Mir-Hossein Mousavi at a mosque in Tehran's northeast.

ETA: The end of this Reuters video has footage of Mousavi addressing the crowd via cell phone: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb0chHiSfqk

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5. CNN video on this

Clerics join Iran protests 1:44
A group of clerics taking part in an anti-government protest represents a blatant act of defiance.
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/28/iran.rafsanjani/index.html#cnnSTCVideo