A witness present inside the salon during the sermon said at one point when opposition supporters broke out into chants, Rafsanjani asked them to be quiet by saying, “Man az shoma behtar migam!” (”I am saying it better than you,” meaning essentially, ‘I’m saying the same thing you are, only I have a sanctioned microphone!")

A man over a loudspeaker yells "Death to America, death to Israel, death to England, death to infidels," and the crowd responds with "Death to Russia!"

A photo of Moussavi at the Rasfanjani speech today.

As news trickles out, the situation gets more intriguing by the hour.

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