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IRGC Breaks up Demonstration in Downtown Tehran

Monday, June 22, 2009

AKI is reporting that Iran's national guard, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, with help from the popular militia, Basij, just broke up a demonstration by hundreds of Mousavi supporters in downtown Tehran. They used tear gas and beatings, characterizing the peaceful assembly as "sabotage." The small crowd was successfully dispersed.

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