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IRAN: Video emerges of Tehran tensions

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Amateur video has emerged of today’s jittery encounter between would-be demonstrators and plainclothes Basiji militiamen wielding batons.

The video above could not be confirmed but appears to conform to witness accounts that described club-wielding Basiji militiamen hurrying pedestrians and would-be demonstrators along in Tehran’s Seventh of Tir Square.

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“Go!” the security forces call out, striking their clubs against metal objects for punctuation. “Don’t stop.”

The person who took this video included a segment at the end that focused in on the faces of the street enforcers.

-- Los Angeles Times

Video: Tuesday in Tehran’s Seventh of Tir Square. Credit: YouTube

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