Iran protesters stage new demonstrations

Defiant Iranian protesters braved police firing tear gas on Monday as they used Students Day commemorations to stage fresh anti-government demonstrations despite a huge crackdown by security forces.Witnesses reported clashes between protesters, mainly university students and policemen, at several universities and prominent districts of the capital, which was flooded with security force members.A number of arrests was made, they added.

Clashes killed at least 31 people in Egypt's Port Said as violence raged into the early hours of Sunday in several cities including the capital following death sentences passed on 21 football fans after a riot.

The oil embargo against Iran has worked, assuming one defines "work" as a destruction of the Iranian riall which has fallen 33% in a week, 57% in three months and 75% in a year vs. the US dollar. On Wednesday, the Tehran bazaar closed in turmoil and police used teargas and batons on demonstrators protesting the currency crisis. Please consider Iran currency crisis sparks Tehran street clashes

Iranian police fired tear gas and beat protesters in clashes Sunday with thousands of opposition supporters chanting anti-government slogans during a Shiite mourning event, witnesses said.Security forces moved in as crowds of protesters gathered in several spots along the main Enghelab street, witnesses said, adding that police fired tear gas to break up the gatherings.

Iranian riot police fired tear gas and paintballs at protesters holding anti-government demonstrations in Tehran, websites and witnesses said, while an Iranian news agency reported that a gunshot killed a bystander.The report by the Fars news agency said a number of people were also wounded by the gunfire and blamed the outlawed former rebel group, the People's Mujahedeen of Iran (PMOI).

Iranian police fired tear gas in fresh clashes on Sunday with thousands of opposition supporters chanting anti-government slogans during a Shiite mourning event, witnesses said.Security forces moved in as crowds of protesters gathered in several spots along the main Enghelab street, witnesses said, adding that police fired tear gas to break up the gatherings.

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National Guard troops are firing tear gas and plastic bullets to disperse students protesting the official results in Venezuela’s disputed presidential election. The students are hurling chunks of concrete and stones back at the troops on a highway in the capital of Caracas. The students are trying to reach the western part of Caracas, where most of the government is headquartered and where Nicolas Maduro is being declared winner of Sunday’s election to replace the deceased Hugo Chavez.