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Excerpt courtesy WSJ, link to full article follows:
Tehran Beats Back New Protests
In Year's Biggest Rally, Iranians Seek Spiritual Head's Ouster
By FARNAZ FASSIHI
Iranian police used tear gas and electric prods to crack down on the country's biggest antigovernment protests in at least a year, as demonstrators buoyed by activism across the Middle East returned to the country's streets by the tens of thousands Monday.
The day of planned antigovernment rallies began largely peacefully, according to witnesses, with protesters marching silently or sitting and chanting. But as demonstrators' ranks swelled, police and antiriot forces lined the streets, ordered shops to shut down and responded at times with force, according to witnesses and opposition websites, in a repeat of the official crackdown that helped snuff out months of spirited opposition rallies a year ago.
By day's end, online videos showed garbage bins on fire, protesters throwing rocks at the police and crowds clashing with motorcycle-mounted members of the pro-regime Basij militia.
Video here: http://www.youtube.com/user/JValdez669?feature=mhum#p/f/6/hiUWmwrc5ok
WSJ link: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100...43792351777466.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories
This is extremely significant; pray for our brothers and sisters in Persia; they will not be treated well, per past precedent!
Tehran Beats Back New Protests
In Year's Biggest Rally, Iranians Seek Spiritual Head's Ouster
By FARNAZ FASSIHI
Iranian police used tear gas and electric prods to crack down on the country's biggest antigovernment protests in at least a year, as demonstrators buoyed by activism across the Middle East returned to the country's streets by the tens of thousands Monday.
The day of planned antigovernment rallies began largely peacefully, according to witnesses, with protesters marching silently or sitting and chanting. But as demonstrators' ranks swelled, police and antiriot forces lined the streets, ordered shops to shut down and responded at times with force, according to witnesses and opposition websites, in a repeat of the official crackdown that helped snuff out months of spirited opposition rallies a year ago.
By day's end, online videos showed garbage bins on fire, protesters throwing rocks at the police and crowds clashing with motorcycle-mounted members of the pro-regime Basij militia.
Video here: http://www.youtube.com/user/JValdez669?feature=mhum#p/f/6/hiUWmwrc5ok
WSJ link: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100...43792351777466.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories
This is extremely significant; pray for our brothers and sisters in Persia; they will not be treated well, per past precedent!
Not good. 
