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Iran cracks down as reformists call for mourning
Wed Jun 24, 2009 2:15am EDT
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By Zahra Hosseinian and Hossein Jaseb
TEHRAN (Reuters) - A security crackdown appears to have quelled street rallies against Iran's disputed poll, but the leadership faced a new challenge on Wednesday from calls by reformist clerics for national mourning for dead protesters.
(EDITORS' NOTE: Reuters and other foreign media are subject to Iranian restrictions on their ability to report, film or take pictures in Tehran.)
While defiant cries of "Allahu Akbar" (God is greatest) were again heard from Tehran rooftops as darkness descended overnight, Iran's hardline Islamist leadership, for now at least, seemed to have gained the upper hand.
Riot police and Basij militia appeared to have largely ended mass protests against the June 12 election, which reformists say was rigged to return President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to power and keep out moderate former Prime Minister Mirhossein Mousavi.
At least 10 protesters were killed in the worst violence on Saturday, and about seven more early last week. Many of the deaths have been filmed by fellow demonstrators, posted on the Internet and viewed by thousands around the world.
U.S. President Barack Obama toughened his stance on Tuesday and said he was "appalled and outraged" by Iran's crackdown.
Iran has accused the protesters of being backed by the West, the United States and Britain in particular, and have paraded arrested young demonstrators on state television confessing to being incited by foreign news broadcasts.
"Rioters confess: Western media duped us," the conservative Kayhan International newspaper said in a front-page headline.
Other hardline newspapers carried articles on Wednesday blaming Mousavi for the violence. One of them, Vatan-e Emrouz, quoted what it said was the father of one of those killed.
"The one responsible for my child's blood is Mirhossein Mousavi and I will follow up this issue until I get my right," it quoted him as saying, giving the victim's surname as Ghanian.
Mousavi has repeatedly said his supporters are not behind the post-election violence.
The Foreign Ministry accused U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon of interfering in Iran's affairs "under the influence of some powers," an apparent reference to Britain and the United States.
Ahmadinejad would be sworn in before parliament sometime between July 26 and August 19, the Iran News newspaper said.
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Tehran's hardline leadership is locked in a dispute with Western powers over its nuclear programme, which it says is intended for generating electricity but which the West suspects could yield nuclear weapons that could destabilise the region. Continued...
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