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TEHRAN, Iran -- The government continued to move aggressively on Tuesday to crush popular protests over a disputed presidential election, setting up a special court for demonstrators, detaining hundreds of independent and opposition journalists and activists and sending a force of police officers and militiamen onto the streets.
The comprehensive crackdown left the center of Tehran eerily quiet, given the huge demonstrations and clashes of recent days. It seemed perhaps a moment of pause for protesters to regroup or reconsider, after at least 17 demonstrators had been killed. Arrests and intimidation left the opposition with no visible leadership, even amid mostly anonymous calls on the Internet for more demonstrations and even a general strike in the coming days.See the full content of this document
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Iran Continues Crackdown On Protests
Stepping up its assertion of victory, the government took the provocative step on Tue...
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