Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Clashes in Iran on Anniversary of Embassy Takeover
















The protests — in Tehran and several other cities — were the opposition’s largest street showing in almost two months and came on a day of great symbolic importance for the government: the 30th anniversary of the takeover of the United States Embassy in 1979. Although they failed to overshadow the government’s own official rally, many protesters took heart at their own turnout, in the face of a large police presence and weeks of stark warnings from all levels of Iran’s hard-line establishment. - New York Times - (more here)











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