Iranian police clash with up to 3,000 protesters@chron
Influential former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, seen by analysts as a possible mediator in any effort to defuse the election row, called for a thorough examination of complaints.
"I hope those who are involved in this issue thoroughly and fairly review and study the legal complaints," Rafsanjani said.
Breaking his post-election silence, he described events after the vote as a conspiracy by suspicious elements aimed at dividing people and the Islamic system, and also targeting people's trust in it. "Wherever the people entered the scene with full alertness, such plots were foiled," the ISNA and IRNA news agencies quoted him as saying, without elaborating.
Rafsanjani, who has occupied key posts since the founding of the Islamic Republic, backed Mousavi's election campaign and was fiercely criticized by Ahmadinejad on television.
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Authorities are riding on motorcycles alongside the marchers, who are telling each other to walk slowly and drag their feet, a CNN producer reported. Police are telling the demonstrators to move faster, said the producer, who CNN is not naming for security reasons.
The marchers are walking from north to south down a major street, Shariati Street, near the Ghoba Mosque, where a memorial is being held in honor of a hero of the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Some of the protesters are telling the police that they have the legal right to protest in peace, the CNN journalist said.
Based on reports from Ghoba mosque, it is full of people and tens of thousands of people are in nearby streets. #iranelection
RT @RAGreeneCNN About 5000 protest silently in Tehran, slow-walking street. Link will be updated http://tinyurl.com/ldyrow #iranelection
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