Violence Escalates In Iran: Police Swarming The Streets

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The city of Tehran saw violence increase substantially this evening as police swarmed into the streets attacking civilians arbitrarily, smashing car windows, damaging motorcycles, beating citizens with truncheons, even shooting through a locked dormitory door of the University of Tehran and injuring the students inside.

Women were beaten while waiting for a bus, people were knocked off their motorcycles and beaten senseless, bloodshed without bullets, so far.

Iran has cut-off most external communication links with Europe and North America on the theory that the western media is flaming the civil unrest. Demonstrations in support of opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi were held by the Iranian communities in both Los Angeles and Toronto.

In pointing to the alleged voting fraud perpetrated by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mousavi supporters ask how Mousavi could not have received the majority vote in his own home town? They state that it is impossible that Mousavi would have lost the votes of his own family, relatives, and friends, an issue that the government has not addressed.

The more discrepancies that are discovered in the election procedures the more adamant Mousavi supporters are that the entire election was a fraud, orchestrated and planned by Ahmadinejad. Since pre-election polls showed Mousavi as the favorite by a large majority it appears that the Ahmadinejad administration could simply discard one-half of the votes for Mousavi and in that manner guarantee Ahmadinejad's victory.

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