“Death to the Dictator” Again Shouted In Tehran
Reuters reports from Tehran that, according to witnesses, Iran security forces clashed with supporters of opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi during annual anti-Israel rallies on Friday.
“Security forces just arrested over 10 people,” one witness said. “Supporters of Ahmadinejad are beating supporters of (opposition leader Mirhossein) Mousavi near the Vali-ye Asr street (in central Tehran). At least two protesters were injured,” the witness said.
Reuters stated that many drivers, wearing green wristbands, held out their hands in V signs as they drove in the city, especially on freeways.
FOX News reported the following:
By midmorning in central Tehran, dozens of opposition supporters in green T-shirts and wearing green wristbands — a color symbolizing the opposition movement — marched with fingers raised in the V-sign for victory and chanting “Death to the Dictator.
Others shouted for the government to resign, carried small photos of Mousavi, while some women marched with their children in tow.
There were also chants of: “Neither Gaza nor Lebanon, but our life is for Iran” — a slogan defying the regime’s support for Palestinian militants in Gaza and Lebanon’s Hezbollah guerrilla.
In the meantime, of those arrested during the first protests against the election of Ahmadinejad, three Americans have been detained in Iran for nearly seven weeks.
The Americans “trampled the law, and in accordance with the laws, they need to be punished,” Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told NBC News.
In response to the requests for the American’s release by their mothers, Ahmadinejad indicated that he would entertain such entreaties only “under an equal condition” — the release of Iranians who are “in U.S. prisons right now with no good reason,” whom he did not identify.
