In Iran, the nephew of opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi has been killed in riots with police in the capital Tehran. The death was confirmed by a colleague of Mr Mousavi. Three other demonstrators also died, say opposition members, when security troops fired on the crowd.
Iranian authorities have acknowledged the deaths, but said that only one person was killed by gunfire and that the bullets were not fired by police because the police were unarmed. Of the other three, authorities said one died by falling off a bridge while the remaining two were killed in car accidents.
There have been further confrontations between opposition supporters and the police in a number of other Iranian cities. Four more people are rumoured to have been killed. Police say 300 opposition members have been arrested.
Tensions in Iran have been running high since the death of Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, a prominent critic of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, one week ago.
The seventh day of mourning for the ayatollah coincides with the Shi'ite Muslim feast of Ashura, which commemorates the death of a grandson of the prophet Muhammad. Shi'ites in several countries, including Iraq, gather in large numbers for the feast day.
Photo of injured Iranian opposition supporter by ANP
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The nephew of Mir Hossein Mousavi, the Iranian opposition leader, has reportedly been killed in violence surrounding street protests in Tehran during the Shia Muslim festival of Ashoura. "It's clear that the protests against the regime encompass a very broad cross-section of Iranian society, including devout Muslims".
I'm afraid there is a conspiracy.Because the man who died was a nephew of opposition leader.Government might e involved
This is not necessarily a situation of cowardly hypocrisry. Instead, the West is quietly fostering the opposition demonstratrions as a means of attacking the Iranian regime from within. This also affords Western intelligence services contact and controls with and over those who may succeed the Mullahs in future. Sanctions against Iran concerning it's nuclear programme may well prove futile and internal insurrection seems to be the preferred strategy. Not everything on the world stage may appear it seems at face value!
"In Iran, the nephew of opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi has been killed in riots with police in the capital Tehran. The death was confirmed by a colleague of Mr Mousavi. Three other demonstrators also died, say opposition members, when security troops fired on the crowd.".......Crime against humanity and you don't hear the EU and UN protesting the murders in Iran. No, British courts filing crimes against humanity (like they did with Israel) against Iranian dictators? Israel was defending itself from Hamas' thousands of rocket attacks and the British legal system wanted to arrest and put on trail leaders from Israel but when Iran slaughters it's own citizens who only were protesting against the governmenton the streets and in their jails, you don't hear one little squeak from the EU and UN. I wonder why? Too much oil in Iran, maybe?
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