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DAVID CAIRNS
The First Post
February 11, 2010
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Iran is celebrating its 31st anniversary as an Islamic republic today with a series of vast officially-sanctioned demonstrations. But reports of the brutal suppression of opposition counter-protests are surfacing on the internet – even though the government has tried to disrupt the free flow of information online.
The official rallies of hundreds of thousands of Government supporters are taking place across Iran, but it was in the capital, Tehran, that president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told the largest assembly of supporters that Iran was now a “nuclear state”, having produced a batch of highly-enriched uranium for the first time. Celebrating the anniversary of the 1979 revolution, which overthrew the last Shah and brought the Ayatollah Khomeini home from exile, supporters carried flags and banners saying “Death to Israel!”
[efoods]So far, it seems opposition demonstrations have been much smaller than last summer’s unrest, perhaps because Iran’s security forces have been warning people not to take part in them. Oppositions activists say they have received threatening text messages, while the country’s police chief, Esmail Ahmadi Moghaddam said yesterday: “If anyone wants to disrupt this glorious ceremony, they will be confronted by people and we too are fully prepared.”
This threat of co-operative suppression between civilians and police seems to have been born out: supporters reported that a hard-line militia attacked the convoy of opposition leader Mahdi Karroubi with batons and pepper spray, while two other leaders were arrested, and later released, by security forces as they tried to attend protests.
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