AP photographer: 1 dead as militia fire on (pro-Mousavi) rally

[Turborama]

Source: AP

Gunmen have fired on opposition protesters at a massive march over alleged election fraud, killing at least one person.

An Associated Press photographer saw one person shot dead and several others who appear seriously wounded in Tehran's Azadi Square. The shooting came from a compound for volunteer militia linked to Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard.

The gunfire Monday came after more than 100,000 opponents of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad streamed through Tehran. They were not challenged by security forces despite an earlier ban on rallies for reformist leader Mir Hossein Mousavi.

Disputes over alleged vote rigging in last week's elections have touched off days of rioting in Tehran.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090615/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_election

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Iran TV says shooting at pro-Mousavi rally

Source: Reuters

TEHRAN, June 15 (Reuters) - Iranian state television said shots were fired during a mass rally in support of defeated presidential candidate Mirhossein Mousavi in Tehran on Monday and that people were running away.

"There has been sporadic shooting out there ... I can see people running here," a reporter of Iran's English-language Press TV said in a live call from Tehran's Azadi Square.

"A number of people who are armed, I don't know exactly who they are, but they have started to fire on people causing havoc in Azadi Square," he said.

Many tens of thousands of people had gathered in the square and a nearby thoroughfare to show support for Mousavi's call for the election to be cancelled.

From: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LF84298.htm

Police and protesters clash at mass Tehran rally

source: AFP

One protestor was shot dead and several were wounded during a Tehran rally on Monday attended by hundreds of thousands of people demonstrating against the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a local Iranian photographer told AFP.

The incident occurred in front of a local base of the Basij volunteer militia, which was on fire, the photographer who declined to be identified said, adding that the dead man had been shot in the head.

An AFP correspondent at the rally said Iranian police clashed with protestors and that crowds of people were seen fleeing.

He said shots were heard and a plume of thick black smoke billowed into the sky above the square in the capital where the rally was being staged.

Police also fired tear gas as dozens of protestors set several motorbikes ablaze, the correspondent said.

From: http://www.france24.com/en/20090615-iran-police-protesters-clash-mass-tehran-rally-mousavi-presidential-election

[Soylent Brice]

1. damn.

this is beginning to take a terrible turn.

[Turborama]

2. Photos (disturbing)

A man who sustained a gunshot wound to his right leg, in an area
where pro-government militia were firing shots in the air, is
carried to a nearby car to be taken away to hospital, near a
rally supporting leading opposition presidential candidate
Mir Hossein Mousavi in Tehran, Iran (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

[Turborama]

3. Reuters: Gunfire in three north Tehran districts-residents

TEHRAN, June 15 (Reuters) - Gunfire was heard in three districts of northern Tehran after dusk on Monday, residents said, following a mass rally in the capital by supporters of defeated presidential candidate Mirhossein Mousavi.

They said repeated shots were heard in Velenjak, Jordan and Darous districts.

As the rally was ending, an Iranian photographer said people in the crowd attacked a building housing members of the Basij religious militia, who then opened fire. One person was killed and many others were wounded. (Editing by Jon Boyle)

From: http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSLF808158

[NYC_SKP]

4. AP photographer: 1 dead as militia fire on rally

Source: Breitbart

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Gunmen have fired on opposition protesters at a massive march over alleged election fraud, killing at least one person.

An Associated Press photographer saw one person shot dead and several others who appear seriously wounded in Tehran's Azadi Square. The shooting came from a compound for volunteer militia linked to Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard.

The gunfire Monday came after more than 100,000 opponents of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad streamed through Tehran. They were not challenged by security forces despite an earlier ban on rallies for reformist leader Mir Hossein Mousavi.

Disputes over alleged vote rigging in last week's elections have touched off days of rioting in Tehran.

Read more: http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D98R7JVG2&show_article=1

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Found with Twitter.

[The empressof all]

5. The twitter feed I'm following...#Iranelection...

Four people killed then People killed the police who shot them. An eye for an eye (paraphrasing)
Crowd estimates from 100,000 to 1,000,000.

Powerful pictures here:

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/06/irans_disputed_election.html

[NYC_SKP]

6. Same here, #Iranelection. Also, try "tweetpipe". The resistance is very encouraging.

I've seen several clips of uniformed thugs with batons and face shields running AWAY from citizens.

I also discovered a cool twitter tool: "twitpipe"

This automatically refreshes three twitter feeds, and you can limit the source to within X km of a city, 10km from Tehran.

http://twitpipe.com/

:patriot:

[Joanne98]

7. Volunteer militia=freepers

[RaleighNCDUer]

8. That is how revolutions begin.

I wonder if Iran is ready for it.

[bstender]

9. Get some perspective people

the USA spends millions of dollars funding covert actions to destabilize Iran. That is what you are watching. That is what you are swallowing whole just like so many major media propaganda jobs that have come before.

here's some perspective to consider: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jun/13/iranian-election

[XLSweetTea]

12. FREE IRAN

The people of Iran are finally attempting to free themselves from the fascists religious dictators - why isn't the President responding with statements of support? We'll only get this chance once!

[leftynyc]

15. Because he's smarter than you are

Pres Obama knows if he shows support for the opposition, Ahmadinijad will use it to portray him as a puppet of the US and popular opinion will turn. But I suspect you knew that already.

[chatnoir]

18. Exactly

Better stay far away from showing support, lest it's turned against the opposition.

[bstender]

19. Obama, smarter than that

1. He knows that Mousavi is not a 'reformer' nor a moderate.
2. He knows that Mousavi lost by a landslide.
3. He knows this is just part of the destablization campaign the US has been waging for several years, and it is wise to disown it.

[Dave From Canada]

23. He could at least criticize the lack of a real election. n/t

[Posteritatis]

20. Yes, yes, everything bad that happens abroad is purely the US' doing

Clearly them ignorant furrner types can never ever ever do anything on their own. :eyes:

[bstender]

28. hyperbole

everything is not the US' fault, of course. but;
1.the US is an empire that spends more on defense than all other ecountries combined and has no apparent moral limits in the quest for continued domination...disinfo and destabilization is standard CIA procedure practiced non-stop for generations against countries who arent behaving as the USA would like them to. Iran has been the recipient of this treatment for decades. this is a plain fact, no?

2. Mousavi suddenly came out of retirement from his days as an extremist scumbag extraordinaire to challenge the very popular Ahmadenijad. His support was never a threat, was centered in the rich urban areas and the elections came out as expected and were well-covered by observers. the election appears to be as honest as could be expected, certainly more open and honest than a typical US election. but now we see a flood of contrary conclusions; stolen election, massive support, claims that he is "reformer and "moderate" from none other than the same western M$M mouthpieces that spewed the lies that led to the invasion of Iraq, the same one's who called the destruction of Gaza a 'defensive' operation... These M$M outlets are unable or unwilling to challenge the powers that be, all too happy to reprint press releases straight from their "anonymous high-level sources" without rebuttal or question.

3. The drumbeat for war against Iran has followed the same script as the war against Iraq. the only reason it hasn't happened yet is that the last one was such a disaster that many people are remembering to question the facts as presented by this exact method. Don't be a tool!

[1955doubledie]

22. If by "USA" you mean the Neocons, then you're wrong

They'd do anything they can to prop up their boogey man (Ahmadinejad).

[CreekDog]

25. what are you swallowing?

you are believing something just as outlandish but with far less evidence.

not only that, the "Tehran is not Iran" argument contradicts official election results that say Ahmadinijad won just as strongly in Tehran as everywhere else. So which is it?

don't lecture me about swallowing hook, line and sinker when you swallow something else far more easily.

[EFerrari]

30. It's just as likely to be the Saudis or any number of others.

You probably can't swing a cat in Tehran right now without hitting someone's spook.

[t0dd]

10. Large photo of the march

http://twitpic.com/7h3r5/full

[NYC_SKP]

21. Thanks, that's a great one I also found and posted in another thread.

You can see so many people, but also so many individual faces, it's very moving.

[chatnoir]

11. If you have FB, rally pics from Mousavi's FB page

Not sure if it can be accessed otherwise...

Don't have a photobucket account or I'd post some directly.

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=1758985&id=45061919453#/album.php?aid=81480&id=45061919453


Also video from BBC of demos in Persian (?).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ey9Kgf-cB40&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fhome.php%3Fref%3Dhome&feature=player_embedded

Edit for typo and add of video

[chatnoir]

13. Also found

From IranElection09:

"7 ppl killed and many more injured in azadi sq :(( #iranelection"

[eppur_se_muova]

14. Shots fired at huge Iran protest (BBC) {also video at link}

Shots have been fired at a rally in Iran where hundreds of thousands of people were demonstrating against last week's presidential election results.

Unconfirmed reports said one protester was killed and several more were hurt when security forces opened fire.

The crowd had been addressed by beaten candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, who believes the vote was fixed in favour of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Mr Ahmadinejad has dismissed the claims and says the vote was fair.

The BBC's Jon Leyne, in Tehran, says Monday's rally was the biggest demonstration in the Islamic republic's 30-year history and described it as a "political earthquake".
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8101098.stm

Fairly long article, considering. Replies from within Iran are requested by BBC. None posted yet.

ON EDIT: not sure if video is viewable outside of UK. All I got was an Intel commercial.

[alfredo]

16. Images from Tehran and a list of Iran Twitters

http://picasaweb.google.com/bahramks/RiotsInTehran#5347619312559146210

http://www.h3x.no/2009/06/14/iranians-on-twitter-during-the-june-clashes/


Last updated: 15.june 18:05 GMT

For those of you following the june clashes in Iran on Twitter, theese guys are twittering directly from Iran: (And have done so within the last hour)

http://twitter.com/persiankiwi (Added 15.june 18:05 GMT)
http://twitter.com/parhamdoustda
http://twitter.com/IranUltimatum
http://twitter.com/Bahram81
http://twitter.com/parhamdoustda
http://twitter.com/azarnoush
http://twitter.com/jadi
http://twitter.com/tehranbureau
http://twitter.com/hamednz
http://twitter.com/Shahrzadmo
http://twitter.com/smileofcrash
http://twitter.com/alirezasha
http://twitter.com/IranElection09
http://twitter.com/IranRiggedElect
http://twitter.com/madyar
http://twitter.com/TehranBureau
http://twitter.com/iran09
http://twitter.com/StopAhmadi
http://twitter.com/smileofcrash
http://twitter.com/iranbaan
http://twitter.com/bahadorn
http://twitter.com/2hamed

Users that have not twittered for +1 hour:

http://twitter.com/sasan_j
http://twitter.com/Change_for_Iran
http://twitter.com/knv
http://twitter.com/y_shar
http://twitter.com/Change_for_Iran
http://twitter.com/avahedi
http://twitter.com/parastoo
http://twitter.com/jubinahdi
http://twitter.com/mousavi1388
http://twitter.com/Mynumberone1988
http://twitter.com/willyong
http://twitter.com/tehranelection

Watch Twitter live @ here

[bikesein]

24. Thank you very much for the links EOM.

[chatnoir]

17. Warning: very graphic pic :(((

http://twitpic.com/7hbae

[Captain Hilts]

26. Uh oh. nt

[NYC_SKP]

27. Various tweets now put it at 4 or possibly 7 dead. nt

[janx]

29. Just got home from work and read about this via

an AP report.

I don't think the reformists are going to stop.

[Wednesdays]

31. K&R

:kick: