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Iran Reports – June 28, 2009

(Iran) New clashes in Iran as standoff worsens with West
— “Witnesses said riot police used tear gas and clubs to break up a crowd of up to 3,000 protesters who had gathered near north Tehran’s Ghoba Mosque”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090629/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_election

Iran’s mass arrests: Broadest since 1979 Islamic revolution
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0628/p06s01-wome.html

Iran arrests British embassy staff
— “Eight British embassy employees in Tehran have been arrested in a sharp escalation of the diplomatic row between Iran and the UK”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/5672787/Iran-arrests-British-embassy-staff.html
— British fury as Iran arrests nine embassy workers
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6597815.ece

Iran allows demonstration despite weekend clampdown
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/28/iran.demonstration/index.html

(Iran) Report: Hospitalized Iranians seized
— “Iranians wounded during protests are being seized at hospitals by members of an Islamic militia, an
Amnesty International official told CNN.”
— “‘The Basijis are waiting for them,’ said Banafsheh Akhlaghi”
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/27/iran.protests/index.html

(Iran) Tehran protest diary, week two: an angry Muslim mother reports from within Iran
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/5662061/Tehran-protest-diary-week-two-an-angry-Muslim-mother-reports-from-within-Iran.html

Iran opposition rejects partial recount
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25704323-23109,00.html

(Iran) Khamenei blasts West for ‘idiotic remarks’: TV
http://geo.tv/6-28-2009/45027.htm

Iran’s Press TV disputes story of Neda’s death
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/28/iran.neda.dispute/index.html