One dead as Iran protesters clash with police

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IRANIAN riot police fired tear gas and paintballs at protesters holding anti-government demonstrations in Tehran today, 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. “The illegal gathering of seditionists, Monafeghin (hypocrites), monarchists and thugs in some streets caused the riots, but the presence of the people forced the elements of sedition and Monafeghin to leave,” the news agency said, using the regime’s standard term of abuse for the People’s Mujahedeen….

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One dead as Iran protesters clash with police

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