in Raid mosque where former President Khatami delivers a speech, tear gas against demonstrators.
Several incidents of protests and clashes took place yesterday in the Iranian capital Tehran, in the penultimate day of the religious festival of Moharram, characterized by public processions that culminate today the feast of Ashura. It 's a time of great religious and political passions of Shiite Islam, this time marked by the disappearance of Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, a very popular figure and great leadership, critical voice of the Islamic republic he helped create, died last Sunday in his home in Qom.
Day turbulent then, even if the stories are fragmentary and is difficult to see how many people are involved. A half day in the city center, police fired tear gas and shots into the air to disperse people who were shouting slogans against the government. He reports the website Jaras, close to the opposition: "Security forces in riot gear clashing violently with opposition supporters in various parts of downtown." Police also raided the headquarters of the news agency ISNA, semi-official, to chase demonstrators, always refers Jaras: a couple of employees were beaten, one has a fractured skull. The agency ISNA yesterday placed online in regular dispatches which does not mention the raid. While on You Tube videos of people came shouting slogans and fleeing the police in Tehran and in one case in Kashan. The official news agency IRNA has implicitly acknowledged the facts, saying that the foreign press exaggerates the scope of these 'failed attempts at gathering, "and that" troublemakers "were no more than 150. The police chief Esmail Ahmadi-Moqadam said that each disorder will be addressed in a 'grounding'.
The episode is perhaps more significant, however, occurred in the late afternoon Jamaran in the far north of Tehran, in an area where there is the house and mosque of the late Imam Ruhollah Khomeini: there was scheduled a speech by former President Mohammad Khatami, like every eve of Ashura. His But speech was interrupted a group of 'more than 50 extremists attacked the place with chains, sticks and tear gas spray to attack the place where Khatami was giving a speech, "referring Parleman News, news site on the Internet related to the parliamentary group of 'reformist opposition. Foreign journalists are forbidden to go directly to follow unofficial events, but the agency Reuters has collected evidence that people gathered in and around the mosque Jamaran shouted slogans like "death to the dictator," and "ya Hossein, Hossein Mir" - the first invocation of the prophet of Islam in Shiite Ashura marks the martyrdom, the second former candidate Mir Hossein Musavi, figure opposition leaders.
For Today promises more power, why is Ashura and is the seventh day after the death of Ayatollah Montazeri (anniversary celebrated in Shia ritual), whose memorials have become the occasion for protests. Since news spread yesterday on mobile phones and the web, the opposition calls to gather again in central Tehran. While the families of some reformist leaders held after the disputed elections in June will come together to demand their release.
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