Tehran protest broken up

September 18th, 2009 Iranian government supporters, opposition to rallyTEHRAN, Iran — Police are deploying across Tehran as people take to the streets for a government-sponsored pro-Palestinian rally that will be addressed by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The opposition has said it would also hold a protest on Friday, in defiance of warnings by the clerical establishment against anti-government rallies.

September 3rd, 2009 New protest reported in China city of UrumqiBEIJING — Witnesses report a new protest has broken out in the western Chinese city of Urumqi, which was torn by deadly ethnic rioting in July. People living near the city center reached by telephone said hundreds, possibly thousands of members of China's majority Han ethnic group had gathered downtown to denounce the regional government and deteriorating law and order in the city.

August 3rd, 2009 TEHRAN - Renewed protest demonstrations started Monday in Tehran, just hours after the official endorsement of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's second presidential term, eye-witnesses said. Thousands gathered between the two squares of Vali Asr and Vanak which connect central to northern Tehran, they said.

July 30th, 2009 TEHRAN - Iranian police and security forces Thursday broke up a demonstration by mourners remembering those killed in recent post-election clashes, and prevented Mir Hussein Moussavi from attending, witnesses said. Police used batons to break up a crowd of several hundred who had gathered around the grave of Neda Agha-Soltan, who died during last month's protests against the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

July 26th, 2009 TEHRAN - Iranian opposition leader Mir-Hossein Moussavi applied at the interior ministry for permission to hold a mourning ceremony for the victims of the recent protest demonstrations, ILNA news agency reported Sunday. At least 20 demonstrators were killed during protest rallies in the last 40 days against alleged fraud in the June 12 presidential election that led to re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

July 19th, 2009 TEHRAN - Iran Sunday freed a British embassy staffer, the last of nine arrested on suspicion in fomenting dissent after alleged fraud in Iran's June 12 presidential elections. Hossein Rassam, chief analyst of the British embassy, had been detained for more than three weeks.

June 21st, 2009 BERLIN/TEHRAN - Minor protests continued in the Iranian capital Tehran Sunday over the disputed re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. According to witnesses, choruses of Ahmadinejad opponents could be heard in many parts of the city, shouting out "Allaho akbar" (God is great) as well as the name of the opposition leader Mir Hussein Moussavi and "Death to the dictator".

June 20th, 2009 TEHRAN/BERLIN - Eyewitness reports said Saturday that Iranian police have fired gunshots in the air at a demonstration in Tehran to disperse protestors. Witnesses said supporters of defeated presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Moussavi clashed with supporters of incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

June 18th, 2009 TEHRAN - Hundreds of thousands of supporters of opposition leader Mir-Hossein Moussavi attended a protest gathering Thursday in downtown Tehran against alleged election fraud in last week's presidential election and the killing of demonstrators, witnesses said. The majority of the protestors wore black after Moussavi had declared Thursday a mourning day.

June 16th, 2009 TEHRAN - Iran Tuesday banned the foreign press from covering protest rallies or gatherings held by supporters of opposition leader Mir-Hossein Moussavi. The foreign press department of the culture ministry said in a circular to all foreign press offices to "seriously avoid" any events not directly authorised by that ministry.

June 16th, 2009 TEHRAN - Supporters of opposition leader Mir-Hossein Moussavi planned to hold another protest Tuesday in Tehran, opposition circles said. The gathering was to be held at the Vali-Asr square in downtown Tehran, the same venue where President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad celebrated his re-election victory Sunday.

June 1st, 2009 LAHORE - Iran has lodged a strong protest with Pakistan over its failure to curb the ever increasing activities of Jundullah, a militant organization based in Pakistan. According to well-placed diplomatic sources, Iran said the Jundullah not only threatens the diplomatic relations between Islamabad and Tehran, but it also poses a threat to the proposed Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline project.

February 2nd, 2009 TEHRAN - Tehran mayor Mohammad-Bagher Qalibaf has named Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who had walked out of a World Economic Forum (WEF) debate, as an 'honorary Tehran citizen', Mehr News has reported. Tehran mayor’s move followed a heated debate at the WEF in Davos in which the Turkish prime minister told Israeli President Shimon Peres that 'when it comes to killing, you know very well how to kill'.

January 20th, 2009 TEHRAN - Eleven convicted murderers were hanged Wednesday in Tehran, the daily Vatan'e Emruz reported. The 11 were hanged early Wednesday in the Evin prison in northern Tehran after their death sentences were confirmed by the Supreme Court.

January 13th, 2009 TEHRAN - Islamist students in Tehran Tuesday staged a protest in front of the Swiss embassy, shouting slogans in solidarity with Palestine and burning pictures of US president-elect Barack Obama and Egyptian President Hosny Mubarak. According to the ISNA news agency, the students hoisted the Palestinian flag in front of the Swiss embassy which acts as a intermediary of the US with Iran, as Washington and Tehran have had no diplomatic ties for three decades.