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Opposition supporters protest in Tehran holding pictures of opposition leader Mousavi.
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WATCH: Iran police clash with thousands of anti-Ahmadinejad protesters
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Iranian police clashed on Wednesday with supporters of Iran's opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi who had gathered in a Tehran street as the country marks the 30th anniversary of the storming of the U.S. embassy.

Thousands of Iranian security forces had assembled on the streets of Tehran to prevent any gathering by the opposition.

"Police clashed with hundreds of protesters. They were chanting 'Death to dictators'. Police used batons to disperse them," a witness said.

Another witness said police fired teargas at the crowd.



Opposition leaders Mousavi and Mehdi Karoubi had urged their supporters to take to the streets to stage protests against the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

"There are hundreds, chanting 'God is greatest'. Police and Basij militia are outnumbering the protesters," the witness
said.

Iran's Revolutionary Guards and its allied Basij militia have warned the opposition to avoid using any anti-U.S. rally to revive protests against the clerical establishment after June's disputed presidential election which Ahmadinejad won.

The unrest that erupted after the vote was the worst in Iran in the past three decades.

"Hundreds of police, riot police, Basij militia and plainclothes are in the main squares," another witness said.

"Police cars with black curtains have been parked in the squares to take away protesters."

Another witness also said dozens of police were walking around the British embassy in central Tehran.

"Dozens of police and Basij forces are around the Russian embassy as well," the witness said.

Some reformist websites have called on people to gather outside the Russian embassy, in an apparent protest at Moscow's recognition of Ahmadinejad's re-election on June 12.

Anti-Western rallies usually take place outside the old U.S. embassy - now called the "den of espionage" in Iran - to mark
the anniversary.

Iranian militants stormed the embassy on Nov. 4 1979 and held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days.

Some leaders of the student militants who seized the U.S. embassy shortly after Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution, along with dozens of moderate political figures, have been imprisoned since the election in June.

In September, opposition demonstrators clashed with government backers and police at annual pro-Palestinian rallies.

The authorities deny vote rigging, and have portrayed the unrest as a foreign-backed bid to undermine the Islamic state.
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  4.   Sarah 3. Hypocrisy kills. 12:19  |  Michael 04/11/09
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  8.   Vitaly 5. Iraq IS Israel`s war. 13:58  |  Michael 04/11/09
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  12.   Michael 16:00  |  Sarah 04/11/09
  13.   Mark Lincoln 16:28  |  Sarah 04/11/09
  14.   #1 Michael... WE supported a run off election 16:44  |  Lynn 04/11/09
  15.   Sarah 12. Do YOU care about Iranian civilians? 16:46  |  Michael 04/11/09
  16.   #5 Vitaly...just think 17:00  |  Lynn 04/11/09
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  26.   H22. You`re not very accurate. 19:47  |  Michael 04/11/09
  27.   and the world stands still 22:05  |  alter ego 04/11/09
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