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Demonstrators Tear-Gassed, Fired On

Juan Cole 07/09/2009

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Hundreds of protesters braved tear gas and even some live fire to march toward Tehran University on Thursday, commemorating a crushed student protest movement of 1999 a s well as protesting the allegedly stolen elections of June 12. Police intervened to disperse them. A new and significant feature of this demonstration was that simultaneous rallies also occurred in cities all around the country. Although the crowds were relatively small, this national coordination suggests a national underground organization is emerging. The authorities cut off text messaging capabilities on Thursday in a vain attempt to thwart networking.

Nico Pitney is doing his usual superb job of live-blogging today’s events in Iran.

Aljazeera English has a backgrounder on today’s protests

Nico Pitney’s interview with me at the Brave New Studios in Los Angeles on Wednesday:

You can also see it at Robert Greenwald’s Brave New Studio site, a treasure trove of progressive, web-distributed documentary film-making.

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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