Iran ProtestIranian police fired tear gas and fired into it the air to disperse the crowd of demonstrators in the center of Tehran. Hundreds of law enforcement officers blocked the path of 200 opposition supporters, who tried to arrange a meeting. According to witnesses, police accelerates even small groups of people, the whole city is literally filled with security forces.

Presidential elections in the Islamic republic held on 12 June. The next day was declared re-elected for a second term Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, supported by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Since then, supporters of opposition lost the elections, reformist Mir-Hossein Mousavi went to the streets and demanded, that the official results of voting, which the opposition had lost, had been rigged. The clashes with the demonstrators by police and troops have been held the second week.