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Thursday, July 30, 2009
Brush with the truth
PressTV, Iran's state-supported TV channel, is actually reporting on the protests going on in country today. The demonstrations weren't the lead story, but hey, the fact that they are reporting it at all is progress.
Police forces on Thursday used tear gas to break up supporters of defeated presidential candidates Mehdi Karroubi and Mir-Hossein Mousavi who had gathered at the Behesht-e Zahra cemetery to commemorate the lives lost in recent unrest in the country.
Elsewhere in the central street of Abbas Abad in the Iranian capital, witnesses said protesters set garbage bins on fire as the security forces tried to prevent them from gathering for the banned memorial ceremony.
 Don't hold your breath waiting for them to report accurate vote counts, though...Labels: election, free speech, Iran, vote
posted at 9:39 AM
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