Government supporters held in Tehran last the coffin of the killed in the protests Sani Saleh in Iran in the wake of the upheavals in Egypt, Tunisia and the tensions between the government and the opposition continued to rise. After on Monday, a demonstration of the opposition "green movement" had been violently dispersed, it was, according to the website of Iranian state television on Wednesday on the edge of the mourning ceremony for a killed in the protests students to clashes between supporters of the opposition and the regime.
Images from Tehran showed a greatly increased volume of security forces. At the funeral, held at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts at Tehran University, where the deceased was enrolled, were government supporters and opponents can claim that the dead man had been on their side and were murdered by the other side was.
Earlier, the Fars news agency reported, the slain Sani Shaleh member of the Basij paramilitary was that had been on the suppression of the protests of the "green movement" that followed the disputed presidential election participated in 2009. The protests in Iran are based in a new field against the religious leader Ali Khamenei, the bizarre at first glance dispute over the dead shows how much the regime is aware of the danger that it grows with each "martyr" to the opposition.
Prior to the Revolution of 1979 it was the funeral for the killed demonstrators are always new and more numerous and larger mass protests against the Shah's regime. The authorities should therefore have tried to take the dead to claim for themselves. On Wednesday it was revealed that in the meantime, a second protester died of his gunshot wounds.
That is obviously on Monday despite demonstration ban thousands if not tens of thousands gathered in central Tehran, shows the courage and the vitality of the movement, whose activists since the protests had to suffer from the summer of 2009 under extreme repression and leave the country in large numbers.
The thrust of the protests aimed at a new focus directly against the religious leader Ali Khamenei. The call "Mubarak, Ben Ali, now is the turn of Seyed Ali" places him in the series with the deposed dictators of Egypt and Tunisia. The nightly "Allahu Akbar" calls on the rooftops of Tehran sounded again.
Facebook on the web portal are reports that parts of the Revolutionary Guards against a crackdown by the security forces have made. Demonstrators tell there any indications of solidarity behavior. Since the suppression of the protests of 2009, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards have a lot invested in ever more sophisticated methods to stifle any protest in the bud.
The riots of 2009 were a "vaccination for the regime that did not get the Arabs," says an Iranian observer. The leaders of the "green movement," Mir-Hussein Musavi and Mehdi Karroubi on Wednesday rejected accusations that the protests were controlled from abroad. The "Green Wave" set only for freedom and constitutional rights, the former Prime Minister Mousavi wrote on his website.
More than 200 MPs had called in the Iranian parliament on Tuesday the death penalty for Moussaoui and Karroubi, because they had organized the recent protests with the help of Western countries. Mousavi and Karrubi are currently under house arrest. The Iranian Prosecutor General Gholam-Hussein Mohseni-Edschei told the news agency added that opposition leaders would be punished.
Karrubi called on its website the government to release all political prisoners and to respect the press and freedom of assembly. "I'm not afraid of threats and I am ready to pay any necessary price," wrote the priest. The leadership in Tehran has so far not sue the two opposition leaders acted.
The religious leader Khamenei had ordered restraint, because the political costs of litigation and a public humiliation that the rise of two martyrs of the opposition, or at least increase their national and international recognition would have appeared too high. That could now change. The Iranian government under President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called on the population of Tehran on Friday to a mass demonstration against the opposition.
In such state-organized demonstrations have succeeded in power usually to mobilize hundreds of thousands of supporters. They are used primarily to demonstrate outside the popular support for the regime. In Berlin, meanwhile, government spokesman Steffen Seibert warned on Wednesday Iran's leaders not to suppress peaceful protests.
It was "totally unacceptable" as there were protesters intimidated. The federal government call on the Iranian government, the people "now not to deny the rights to which they congratulated the Egyptians now," Seibert said. He also criticized the calls for execution of Moussaoui and Karroubi.
The threats against opposition politicians must come to an end, he said.
Images from Tehran showed a greatly increased volume of security forces. At the funeral, held at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts at Tehran University, where the deceased was enrolled, were government supporters and opponents can claim that the dead man had been on their side and were murdered by the other side was.
Earlier, the Fars news agency reported, the slain Sani Shaleh member of the Basij paramilitary was that had been on the suppression of the protests of the "green movement" that followed the disputed presidential election participated in 2009. The protests in Iran are based in a new field against the religious leader Ali Khamenei, the bizarre at first glance dispute over the dead shows how much the regime is aware of the danger that it grows with each "martyr" to the opposition.
Prior to the Revolution of 1979 it was the funeral for the killed demonstrators are always new and more numerous and larger mass protests against the Shah's regime. The authorities should therefore have tried to take the dead to claim for themselves. On Wednesday it was revealed that in the meantime, a second protester died of his gunshot wounds.
That is obviously on Monday despite demonstration ban thousands if not tens of thousands gathered in central Tehran, shows the courage and the vitality of the movement, whose activists since the protests had to suffer from the summer of 2009 under extreme repression and leave the country in large numbers.
The thrust of the protests aimed at a new focus directly against the religious leader Ali Khamenei. The call "Mubarak, Ben Ali, now is the turn of Seyed Ali" places him in the series with the deposed dictators of Egypt and Tunisia. The nightly "Allahu Akbar" calls on the rooftops of Tehran sounded again.
Facebook on the web portal are reports that parts of the Revolutionary Guards against a crackdown by the security forces have made. Demonstrators tell there any indications of solidarity behavior. Since the suppression of the protests of 2009, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards have a lot invested in ever more sophisticated methods to stifle any protest in the bud.
The riots of 2009 were a "vaccination for the regime that did not get the Arabs," says an Iranian observer. The leaders of the "green movement," Mir-Hussein Musavi and Mehdi Karroubi on Wednesday rejected accusations that the protests were controlled from abroad. The "Green Wave" set only for freedom and constitutional rights, the former Prime Minister Mousavi wrote on his website.
More than 200 MPs had called in the Iranian parliament on Tuesday the death penalty for Moussaoui and Karroubi, because they had organized the recent protests with the help of Western countries. Mousavi and Karrubi are currently under house arrest. The Iranian Prosecutor General Gholam-Hussein Mohseni-Edschei told the news agency added that opposition leaders would be punished.
Karrubi called on its website the government to release all political prisoners and to respect the press and freedom of assembly. "I'm not afraid of threats and I am ready to pay any necessary price," wrote the priest. The leadership in Tehran has so far not sue the two opposition leaders acted.
The religious leader Khamenei had ordered restraint, because the political costs of litigation and a public humiliation that the rise of two martyrs of the opposition, or at least increase their national and international recognition would have appeared too high. That could now change. The Iranian government under President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called on the population of Tehran on Friday to a mass demonstration against the opposition.
In such state-organized demonstrations have succeeded in power usually to mobilize hundreds of thousands of supporters. They are used primarily to demonstrate outside the popular support for the regime. In Berlin, meanwhile, government spokesman Steffen Seibert warned on Wednesday Iran's leaders not to suppress peaceful protests.
It was "totally unacceptable" as there were protesters intimidated. The federal government call on the Iranian government, the people "now not to deny the rights to which they congratulated the Egyptians now," Seibert said. He also criticized the calls for execution of Moussaoui and Karroubi.
The threats against opposition politicians must come to an end, he said.
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