
The police are trying to disperse a rally of opposition supporters disputing the results of the presidential election, which takes place on Saturday in Tehran, despite the ban on the authorities, reports AFP.
According to eyewitnesses, the agency reports, the police stood in the way of the protesters trying to gather in the capital's square and applied batons and waterlets against those who decided to break through the cordon. "They blocked the approaches and beat them," one of the eyewitnesses told the agency.
Reuters reports on the use of tear gas against the protesters. According to the agency, up to two thousand people gathered before Tehran University.
The ex-candidate for President Mehdi Kyarubi and two other oppositionists-ex-prime minister Mir-Hossavi Musavi and the former head of the revolutionary guard Mohsen Riba met on Saturday with representatives of the Iranian Supervisory Board, who listened to the claims of three presidential candidates regarding the violations during the past elections.
Khamenei agreed to count 10% of the vote
According to the results of the meeting, the Supervisory Board agreed to recount 10% of the arbitrary ballots of the presidential election, the results of which the opposition disputed.
In the presidential election held on June 12, the current head of Iran Ahmadi Nezhad gained 62.63% of the vote, his main rival the world Hossein Musavi - 33.75% of the vote. Musavi, even before the announcement of the official results, announced his victory, and later accused the authorities of a tank of voting results.
The protests of the elections dissatisfied with the results of the elections led to clashes, the victims of which, according to the Iranian media, were eight people. A number of countries expressed serious concern about the situation that developed in Iran after the elections.