Clashes broke out Monday, February 14 in the afternoon in Tehran between anti-government protesters and police, who used tear gas and paintballs, witnesses on the spot. According to a report released by the official news agency Fars, these clashes have resulted in one death and several wounded by bullets fired by demonstrators.
The United States indicated that they support "universal rights of the Iranian people." "We want the same chance to the opposition and courageous people who took to the streets across Iran than that experienced able to seize their Egyptian counterparts last week," urged the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Iranian security forces were deployed massively in the streets of Tehran to oppose a demonstration of solidarity with the popular uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia. Several dozen demonstrators were arrested, according to the website of the opponent Mir Hossein Mousavi. While these gatherings were silent at first, some protesters began shouting anti-government slogans as "Death to the dictator," according to the same evidence.
They also burned some trash, said the sources who did not report any injuries or arrests. In Isfahan, in central Somalia, incidents broke out and dozens of demonstrators were arrested, according to witnesses. The authorities refused to Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, leaders of the opposition permission to hold the rally for fear of renewed anti-government protests, which had increased after the election disputed presidential June 2009.
The appeal was still maintained and in mid-day, several thousand people trying to get together at different points in the middle of the capital. "There are dozens of policemen and members of security forces Vali-ye Asr Avenue (...) They blocked the entrances to subway stations in the neighborhood," said one witness reached by telephone.
According to another person, police cars, whose interior is hidden by black curtains are parked close to the Evin prison. Kalemie website Mousavi, reported that security forces have established a roadblock preventing access to the residence of opposition leader, in southern Tehran, and his landline and mobile phones are cut .
"It seems that these new restrictions aimed at preventing Mousavi and his wife (Zahra Rahnavard) to participate in the rally," writes Kalemie. Plainclothes police prevented Zahra Rahnavard to leave home, "said another opposition website. Foreign media have been warned by authorities that they were not allowed to go on site to monitor the situation.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of the Iranian revolution, described the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia "Islamic awakening", similar to the 1979 revolution in Iran that overthrew the Shah. But the opposition saw more similarities with the events it has organized after the election in June 2009, she marred by fraud in favor of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
To mark the 32nd anniversary of the revolution, Iranian state television has repeatedly broadcast footage of a rally on Friday by the authorities. But cries of "Allahu Akbar" (God is greatest ") were heard in the night, launched from the rooftops, a tactic used by the opposition, as did the revolutionaries of 1979.
The authorities claim that opposition leaders are part of a Western plot to overthrow the Islamic regime. The opposition is "guided by Iran's enemies abroad," said Heidar Moslehi and Minister of Intelligence, quoted by the newspaper Kayhan. 
The United States indicated that they support "universal rights of the Iranian people." "We want the same chance to the opposition and courageous people who took to the streets across Iran than that experienced able to seize their Egyptian counterparts last week," urged the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Iranian security forces were deployed massively in the streets of Tehran to oppose a demonstration of solidarity with the popular uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia. Several dozen demonstrators were arrested, according to the website of the opponent Mir Hossein Mousavi. While these gatherings were silent at first, some protesters began shouting anti-government slogans as "Death to the dictator," according to the same evidence.
They also burned some trash, said the sources who did not report any injuries or arrests. In Isfahan, in central Somalia, incidents broke out and dozens of demonstrators were arrested, according to witnesses. The authorities refused to Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, leaders of the opposition permission to hold the rally for fear of renewed anti-government protests, which had increased after the election disputed presidential June 2009.
The appeal was still maintained and in mid-day, several thousand people trying to get together at different points in the middle of the capital. "There are dozens of policemen and members of security forces Vali-ye Asr Avenue (...) They blocked the entrances to subway stations in the neighborhood," said one witness reached by telephone.
According to another person, police cars, whose interior is hidden by black curtains are parked close to the Evin prison. Kalemie website Mousavi, reported that security forces have established a roadblock preventing access to the residence of opposition leader, in southern Tehran, and his landline and mobile phones are cut .
"It seems that these new restrictions aimed at preventing Mousavi and his wife (Zahra Rahnavard) to participate in the rally," writes Kalemie. Plainclothes police prevented Zahra Rahnavard to leave home, "said another opposition website. Foreign media have been warned by authorities that they were not allowed to go on site to monitor the situation.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of the Iranian revolution, described the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia "Islamic awakening", similar to the 1979 revolution in Iran that overthrew the Shah. But the opposition saw more similarities with the events it has organized after the election in June 2009, she marred by fraud in favor of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
To mark the 32nd anniversary of the revolution, Iranian state television has repeatedly broadcast footage of a rally on Friday by the authorities. But cries of "Allahu Akbar" (God is greatest ") were heard in the night, launched from the rooftops, a tactic used by the opposition, as did the revolutionaries of 1979.
The authorities claim that opposition leaders are part of a Western plot to overthrow the Islamic regime. The opposition is "guided by Iran's enemies abroad," said Heidar Moslehi and Minister of Intelligence, quoted by the newspaper Kayhan.
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