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Thursday, June 25, 2009

Iran protesters alter tactics to avoid death

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OMINOUS GATHERING: Security forces stand guard outside Iran's parliament Wednesday in Tehran as protests rage nearby against the outcome of the presidential election.
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Riot police on motorcycles fired tear gas and bullets into the air in clashes with protesters in Iran's capital, Tehran, on Wednesday, witnesses said.

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By Eli Lake

Iran's pro-democracy movement is changing strategy and will use smaller and more dispersed demonstrations to try to protect protesters from security forces, who dissidents now say have killed nearly 250 people in the past 10 days.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf, a prominent Iranian filmmaker who is serving as a spokesman in the West for opposition candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, told The Washington Times that the opposition movement is also asking Iranians all over the world to light candles in silent protest Friday to commemorate Neda Agha-Soltan, a young woman killed by security forces Saturday.

Her slaying, captured on video and sent around the world via the Internet, has become a symbol of the protest movement and of the Iranian government's crackdown on those disputing the purported landslide victory of incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

President Obama on Tuesday called her death "heartbreaking." His spokesman, Robert Gibbs, said Wednesday that U.S. invitations to Iranian diplomats to attend July 4 parties at U.S. embassies and consulates around the world had been withdrawn. He added that no Iranian diplomats had said they would attend. Mr. Gibbs also declined comment on The Times' report Wednesday that the Obama administration sent a letter to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei before Iran's June 12 election proposing better U.S.-Iran relations.

"There has been no communication with Iranian officials since the election," he said. "But I'm not going to confirm or deny anything around this."

The Iranian government has said that 17 people have died so far during the postelection protests; Mr. Makhmalbaf said the toll was 249.

As he spoke, the crackdown intensified, and eyewitnesses reported seeing snipers shooting protesters gathered around Baharestan Square near the Iranian parliament.

The protesters marched in silence, holding banners in black and green that read "Where is my vote?" Some held photos of Miss Agha-Soltan.

Inside the parliament, lawmakers congratulated Mr. Ahmadinejad on his re-election.

An Iranian journalist who covers the parliament and asked to be identified only as Reza told The Times by telephone that more than 500 officers of the elite Revolutionary Guards and other high-ranking security officials in plainclothes surrounded the building. Security there has doubled, Reza said, and even some members of parliament were stopped and questioned by security guards before entering the building.

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