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Iran: Opposition supporters vow to keep up protests

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Opponents of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told the BBC today that they would keep up their protests despite appeals from the nation’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to accept the results of last week’s election. Khamenei today ruled out massive fraud and told demonstrators to get out of the streets.

In an e-mail to BBC Persian TV, translated from Farsi, Saman in Tehran writes:

“Today, Friday, Mr Khamenei made his position extremely clear. He hasn’t left any room for anything else to be said. Tomorrow, Saturday, there will be a massive gathering in Enghelab Square [Revolution Square] in Tehran.”

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Read more reaction from Iran on the BBC website.

— Alexandra Zavis in Los Angeles

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Alexandra Zavis

Alexandra Zavis is a former writer and editor on the Los Angeles Times’ Foreign Desk who has reported from more than 40 countries. She spent a decade with the Associated Press, covering Liberia, Sierra Leone, Congo, Sudan, Somalia, Iraq and Afghanistan, among other war-torn places. After joining The Times in 2006, she has served as a Baghdad correspondent and as a California reporter covering poverty and veterans issues. She is a recipient of the American Academy of Diplomacy’s Arthur Ross Award for distinguished reporting on foreign affairs and was part of teams of reporters awarded the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi Award for foreign correspondence and APME’s International Perspective Award. She is a graduate of Oxford University and City University in London.

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