The cry citizen who runs the Middle East to demand democratic reforms and a better future is also having its impact on Iran. After a person died on Monday and several others were injured in Tehran, violence has returned to the Iranian capital. Supporters of the government led by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad protesters have clashed with opposition-aligned during the funeral of Zhaleh Sanitize young student who died two days ago in protest, according to state television IRIB reported on its website.
Sanitize Zhaleh, 26, was shot during the march organized by opposition leaders and Mehdi Karroubi Hossein Mousavi, the first held after 14 months reprimera regime protests. Both are contesting the election of President Mahmud Ahmadinejad in the 2009 elections, which led to the green revolution, but had not dared to call a new protest since February 11 last year failed their call to rally on the anniversary of the revolution .
During the previous six months, about 80 people were killed, hundreds injured and thousands arrested in a crackdown unprecedented since the early years of the Islamic Republic, reports Los Angeles Espinosa. The student was elevated to the status of martyr for the two sides, who launched accusations blaming the death of the young.
The clashes occurred Wednesday when the funeral procession wound through the center of the Iranian capital after leaving the College of Arts where he studied the young man died, IRIB reported. "Students and people who participated in the funeral of the martyr Sanitize Zhaleh students have clashed with a small number of apparently linked to the movement of sedition." The state television shows pictures of hundreds of people escorting the coffin, wrapped in an Iranian flag.
Kaleme, the site of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi, contains statements of a student who says that thousands of colleagues have been coming to the university from early morning to attend the funeral. "I have no fear of threats," The conflict between the government and the opposition will be continued on Friday when they held a huge march called this morning by the regime to demonstrate its strength.
The demonstration is directed against "the leaders of sedition and Mehdi Karroubi Hossein Mousavi. These have ensured not to be afraid of threats and urged the regime to continue with the protests. "I declare that I have no fear of any threat and that, as a soldier of this great nation over the past 50 years, I am willing to pay any price," Karroubi said in a statement posted on its website.
Several dozen Iranian MPs yesterday demanded the prosecution of opposition leaders and charged them with sedition and criminal conspiracy, according to Iranian law can lead to death. In similar terms has expressed his colleague Mousavi, who said that the demonstration on Monday "is another success of the green movement." "This great movement is being attacked from two sides, the authorities are only concerned with their interests and foreigners who seek to profit," he said.
"They try to link it with Zionism and the United States, but the green movement has always been kept away from foreigners and their objective is to recover the values of the 1979 revolution," he added. 
Sanitize Zhaleh, 26, was shot during the march organized by opposition leaders and Mehdi Karroubi Hossein Mousavi, the first held after 14 months reprimera regime protests. Both are contesting the election of President Mahmud Ahmadinejad in the 2009 elections, which led to the green revolution, but had not dared to call a new protest since February 11 last year failed their call to rally on the anniversary of the revolution .
During the previous six months, about 80 people were killed, hundreds injured and thousands arrested in a crackdown unprecedented since the early years of the Islamic Republic, reports Los Angeles Espinosa. The student was elevated to the status of martyr for the two sides, who launched accusations blaming the death of the young.
The clashes occurred Wednesday when the funeral procession wound through the center of the Iranian capital after leaving the College of Arts where he studied the young man died, IRIB reported. "Students and people who participated in the funeral of the martyr Sanitize Zhaleh students have clashed with a small number of apparently linked to the movement of sedition." The state television shows pictures of hundreds of people escorting the coffin, wrapped in an Iranian flag.
Kaleme, the site of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi, contains statements of a student who says that thousands of colleagues have been coming to the university from early morning to attend the funeral. "I have no fear of threats," The conflict between the government and the opposition will be continued on Friday when they held a huge march called this morning by the regime to demonstrate its strength.
The demonstration is directed against "the leaders of sedition and Mehdi Karroubi Hossein Mousavi. These have ensured not to be afraid of threats and urged the regime to continue with the protests. "I declare that I have no fear of any threat and that, as a soldier of this great nation over the past 50 years, I am willing to pay any price," Karroubi said in a statement posted on its website.
Several dozen Iranian MPs yesterday demanded the prosecution of opposition leaders and charged them with sedition and criminal conspiracy, according to Iranian law can lead to death. In similar terms has expressed his colleague Mousavi, who said that the demonstration on Monday "is another success of the green movement." "This great movement is being attacked from two sides, the authorities are only concerned with their interests and foreigners who seek to profit," he said.
"They try to link it with Zionism and the United States, but the green movement has always been kept away from foreigners and their objective is to recover the values of the 1979 revolution," he added.
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