IRANIAN OPPOSITION CONTINUES PROTESTS
/PanARMENIAN.Net/
20.06.2009 14:11 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Even though Iranian opposition leader Mir-Hossein
Mousavi yesterday asked his proponents to go home, streets have been
full of thousands of people since morning.
Most of demonstrators are young people and intellectuals. Today’s
protest is going to attract a big crowd, radio "Liberty" reports. "We
will not stop battle just for nothing. We want to reinstate justice,"
one of protesters said.
As reported by Amnesty International human rights organization,
protest repression has left 10 people dead.
The country’s supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei had previously denied
opposition’s claims on elections results being falsified. He strongly
demanded that protest actions be discontinued, otherwise not ruling
out possibility of authorities’ using force.