Home >> Middle East >> Iran  Email  Print News Update from Iran Shahriar Kia - 6/20/2009 Tehran
From Shemiran to Azadi Square, there are state security forces with full equipment standing in every square meter in this region. The streets leading to Azadi including Ariashahr have been closed.
4:30 Tehran time – There are large crowds in Enqelab St. and Ariashahr Square and Enqelab Square. People have come for the demo from nearby Karaj to Tehran. There are security forces deployed every meter on the streets. RGC forces and undercover intelligence agents are also on the scene controlling the RGC forces. Armored vehicles are parked on the sides of the streets. The demo started about thirty minutes ago. The large crowds are walking towards Azadi Square. Mobiles lines are not working properly in the region and if you want to make a call you have to go outside of the region. There have been clashes and many injuries. There are thousands of people in the demo and their number is increasing.
State security forces violently attack demonstrators especially in Enqelab Square. Anyone who stops next to the University is immediately beaten up by security forces. Helicopters control the scene from the sky.
The Ministry of Health has issued an announcement saying that ambulances have to take the injured to the Sepah Hospital (RGC hospital). People are warning each other not to put the injured in ambulances and to take them to hospitals with personal cars.
Tehran
11 am - Students of Tehran University gathered in the university mosque and they have planned to join protesters in Enqelab Square at 4pm. Hezbollah Forces and security forces are patrolling the area with motorcycles and have a very heavy presence.
By orders of the officials in the university they do not let any students enter the university or the dorms under any condition for even an hour. Most university students have faced insults and abuse from university officials.
Alameh University students held a ceremony to commemorate the memory of those who were killed in the past few days. They lit candles in the Olympic Section of the university. This ceremony started at 8 am and ended at 11 am.
Other students had planned to join these students from other sections of university by state security forces prevented them. Suppressive forces closed all university doors and did not let anyone enter the grounds.
Khajeh Nasir University students held a gathering in this university. Students demanded that their exams be postponed to September.
This gathering started with 200 people but gradually increased and still continues.
Last night in Fatemi St. people gathered and clashed with Bassiji and Suppressive Forces. There rumors that two people were killed in Mashhad.
Jomhuri St. was officially under RGC control. Security forces deployed on the streets were three times more than before.
State security forces contacted families of detainees arrested in the past few days telling them to go to the Revolutionary Court with bail money. After these families went, the names of 56 detainees were read who will most likely be freed. The names of those arrested in their dorms in Tehran University were not read.
On June 18, at 10 pm a number of people attacked the Bassiji Base in Tehranpars in Ehsan St. and took two guns with them. The set the base on fire and the Bassiji forces ran away.
What people are saying after Khamenie's threats
Khamenie has insulted the Iranian people.
If we said death to dictator to the government yesterday, from tomorrow we will address it to him.
Even if Musavi surrenders, we will be on the scene and pay the price for it.
The leader is desperate. God help the people because if they continued with the protests, the RGC will enter the scene and there will be a blood bath and if they don’t, there will be a bigger dictatorship in Iran.
Qazvin
Students of the Free Takestan Univ. are to start their demo at 2pm Iran time in this university.
Mashhad
Ferdusi University students have in the past few days held demos and gatherings in protest to election results and demanded that their exams be cancelled. But university officials have told them that exams will not be cancelled and it is up to the students to participate or not participate. After rumors that the Ansar Hezbollah was going to attack dorms, students were forced to spend the night on the streets.
Babolsar
After a protest gathering by students in the past few days, 150 of them were injured and arrested. From the 150 students, many of them have been released but 20 of them are still detained and under torture.
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