Sunday, February 20, 2011

The rge iran violently repressed demonstrations in cities across the country

Dozens of Iranian opposition groups have gone out to the streets of different cities to protest against the regime and demand reforms. In order to avoid the tight security, protesters have fled the most common sites of protest and dispersed by other less frequented spots in both the North and the Midwest.

The response of the security forces, as opposition website, was that of a violent crackdown. Among the little information that has come from today's protests, has been known that the daughter of Iranian president, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, has been arrested, according to the official news agency Irna.

Lsa opposition sources have told that near Mellat Park, near the television building in Tehran, officials and volunteers Islamic "Basij" have been charged against the congregation, who shouted slogans against the government and the "dictatorship." According to the website Rahesabz. net, related to opposition leader Mir Hussein Mousavi, the police have fired teargas and charged at groups of people in the central square of Vali-e Asr, also in the Iranian capital.

The information of the opposition contrasts with that offered by the semiofficial news agency as Fars, which ensure that all the capital is calm. "The police have controlled the situation and there is peace in the city, without any reported incidents," he says. The regime, meanwhile, has banned foreign journalists working in the street.

The new wave of demonstrations came just one week after the Iranian opposition street resume months after being silenced in a march in support of the uprisings in Egypt, Tunisia and other Arab countries. In the protest last Monday left two young men, whose loyalty has played both the regime and the opposition all week.

On Tuesday, dozens of Iranian MPs in the House demanded the prosecution of opposition leaders, who could not attend the march because they were blocked by police and held incommunicado at their homes.

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