Iran elections: Mousavi supporters protest

It also came despite a demand from the powerful Revolutionary Guard that websites and bloggers should remove whatever materials that "create tension". Witnesses said that some clashs also erupted later on Tuesday between groups of new men and members of iran's volunteer Basij militia. Mr Ahmadinejad staied defiant, saying his landslide victory in Friday's vote that was indicated faith in his government of "honesty and service to the people". Iran's defeated presidential nominee Mir Hossein Mousavi issued a direct challenge to the nation's clerical regime today, calling for a deal rally to protest against the "shameful fraud" that saw Mahmoud Ahmadinejad re-elected by a landslide. His supporters allege that in reality it was he who was the clear low round victor after a monumental upsurge in support for his moderate message, particularly from young urban voters desperate for change. Iranian land TV broadcast footage of the rally. Tens of thousands of friends of the defeated Iranian presidential nominee Mir Hossein Mousavi took part in what was billed as a "silent" protest rally, marching through central tehran, witnesss said. World regimes voiced increasing alarm about the situation in iran, but president Barack Obama, while raising "deep concerns" over the election, said washington would not meddle in the affairs of its archfoe. Ayatollah ali Khameini, the supreme leader, said he would see a partial recount after the opposite Helled mass protests over what it charges was blatant rigging of the election that gave Mr Ahmadinejad another 4 year term. Wearing green wrist- and headbands in the colour for Mousavi's campaign, the demonstrators had stocked placards accusing re-elected president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of having "stolen" their votes in Friday's poll. The media watchdog reporters Without Borders (RSF), said a dozen Persian journalist and blogger go been arrested and many other make gone into hiding , meanwhile . Grappling with the biggest wave of public anger in 3 decades of islamic principle, iran has lashed out at enemy "plots," hauling in foreign ambassadors and rounding up scores of reformists. In defiance of an official ban, Mr Mousavi himself called for marches and a day of mourning on Thursday for protesters slain in the post-election clashs. At least 7 people get been killed and many more wounded in clashs, with protests reported not only in tehran but also other major cities after an election that has uncovered deep divisions in the oil-rich Shiite Muslim nation. Supporters of Mr Ahmadinejad and Mr Mousavi had staged rival rallies on Tuesday, each calling out hundreds of thousands of people on to tehran's streets, state media said. The foreign media were banned from covering the demonstrations under the tough young restrictions which effectively point at keeping them off the streets, but Iranian newspapers published images of the events. Footage program on the internet has shown dramatic and chaotic prospects of violence, including one purportedly showing a protester shot dead and others of riot police beating protesters. The government get warned they would nip in the bud any "velvet revolution" and have rounded up scores of people in tehran and other cities, including outstanding reformists near to the former chairman mohammad Khatami. Reformist sources that several more leading designs had been arrested on Wednesday, including mohammad Atrianfar, a confidant of former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, and striking analyst and journalist Saeed Laylaz. Mr Khamenei, who has the final state on all matters of state, said he was asking the Guardians council, a 12 -member body made up of jurists and clerics, to examine the allegations over the vote. Mr Mousavi's appeal to supporters, issued via his website, flew in the position of a contract last night by ayatollah ali Khamenei, iran's supreme leader, that the former prime minister should pursue his objectives through the electoral system organization and not on the streets. In a sign of the tensions, the authorities crackdown has also aroused criticism among some senior Iranian clerics and officials, including parliament speaker ali Larijani who spoke out against an attack on pupils at tehran university.