Affrontements à Téhéran – 16 février 2011

Student Funeral Prompts New Tehran Clashes

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Selah Hennessy February 16, 2011

There were fresh clashes in Iran’s capital, Tehran, on Wednesday during the funeral of a student killed in a political rally earlier this week.

The funeral was for Sanea Jaleh, a 26-year-old student who was killed on Monday.

Both the government and the opposition in Iran say Jaleh is a martyr and that he supported their cause. Both have blamed the other for his death.

The rally on Monday was called to show solidarity with revolts in Egypt and Tunisia, which have led to the overthrow of the countries’ longtime rulers.

Iran’s government said Wednesday a rally will take place in Tehran on Friday to demonstrate “hatred” against the country’s opposition movement.

The Islamic Propagation Coordination Council, which organizes rallies in Iran that are backed by the regime, says following Friday prayers, people will “scream out their hatred, wrath and disgust” against what it calls “sedition leaders.”

Conservative lawmakers in Iran already have voiced their anger at two opposition leaders, Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, who they blame for organizing Monday’s rally. Footage aired on Iran’s state-run Press TV on Tuesday showed dozens of lawmakers calling for the two men to be tried and executed.

On Wednesday a senior hardline cleric, Ahmad Khatami, said the two opposition leaders are playing into the hands of Israel and the United States. Khatami said clerics want to see the decisive and legal confrontation of all seditionists, including Mousavi and Karroubi.

Both men are under effective house arrest but took to their websites on Wednesday in defiance of the threats made against them. Karroubi said he is not afraid and is ready to “pay any price” for his country. Read more...

Nouveaux affrontements en Iran

20minutes.fr

16.02.11 à 10h21

Des affrontements ont éclaté ce mercredi à Téhéran, la capitale de l’Iran, entre des partisans du pouvoir et des opposants, rapporte la télévision publique IRIB sur son site internet. Ces violences se sont produites en marge des funérailles de Sani Zhaled, un étudiant tué ce lundi, lors des tentatives de manifestations organisées par l’opposition.