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Thousands of Mousavi supporters march in Tehran
Tue Jun 16, 2009 4:22pm EDT
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By Parisa Hafezi and Fredrik Dahl
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Thousands of supporters of Iran's defeated presidential candidate Mirhossein Mousavi marched in Tehran on Tuesday following a disputed poll prompting the biggest street protests since the 1979 Islamic revolution.
(Editors' note: Reuters coverage is now subject to an Iranian ban on foreign media leaving the office to report, film or take pictures in Tehran.)
On a fourth day of demonstrations since Friday's election, witnesses said they headed -- largely in silence without the accustomed chants -- toward the state television building, despite Mousavi's call for them to call off a planned rally.
In what appeared to be a first concession by authorities to the protest movement in the world's fifth-biggest oil exporter, Iran's top legislative body said it was prepared for a partial recount but ruled out annulling the poll.
The decision was taken by the 12-man Guardian Council following the election in which hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared the runaway winner.
In an apparent attempt to deny the opposition the chance to keep up the momentum of mass street protests, Ahmadinejad's supporters mobilized thousands of demonstrators in central Tehran where Mousavi's supporters had planned to gather again.
The Mousavi supporters marching on Tuesday said they planned to assemble in front of the state television IRIB building in northern Tehran. Witnesses said some supporters had already gathered close to the building, which was ringed by riot police.
Wearing wristbands and ribbons in his green campaign colors, Mousavi supporters carried his picture and made victory signs. Some were sending messages to others to meet again on Wednesday for a rally at Tehran's central Haft-e Tir Square.
As a column of riot police moved up the capital's most famous boulevard, tree-lined Vali-ye Asr Avenue, demonstrators clapped their hands in defiance. Traffic was blocked on the avenue and at one point about 100 protesters sat in the road.
Unlike Monday's vast opposition march in central Tehran, in which seven people were killed, the demonstrators largely refrained from chanting anti-Ahmadinejad slogans.
Later, witnesses heard shouts of support for Mousavi, cries of "Allahu akbar" (God is Great) and the blaring of car horns.
Mousavi has disputed official results of the poll. State television said the "main agents" in post-election unrest had been arrested with explosives and guns.
U.S. President Barack Obama, who has sought to engage Iran and asked its leadership to "unclench its fist," reacted on Tuesday to Iran's post-election violence by saying he believed "people's voices should be heard and not suppressed."
Obama also said he did not want to be seen as "meddling" in Iranian internal affairs.
The U.S. State Department said it had contacted the social networking service Twitter to urge it to delay a planned upgrade that would have cut daytime service to Iranians. Twitter and Facebook have been used as a tool by many young people to coordinate protests. Continued...
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