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We went today, all the routes were closed but we made it to about a km away from revolution square but at every intersection they had riot police dispersing us, wouldn’t let us get through.
We managed to get some further , my guess is on the northern pavement of enghelab street to enghelab square something like 50,000 people were trying to get through, they were using watercanons at the gate of the Tehran university.
They kept breaking us up. The regular riot policemen were generally ok but then the riot police with army fatigue came and started eating people, they were hitting people on the head, one young womn’s head was broken in front of us, we all jumped in the gutter and some of the men protected us from the batons, the girl was in bad way, we dragged her out and then they just kept shouting. One of them had really red eyes and was screaming from the bottom of his lungs, then the tear gas came and we kept running, but then re-grouping, at some point the younger men started chasing them saying death to basiji.
But then more tear gas and batons.
Along the road running nrth don’t know the name but near the university there were basijis mingling with the army types in yellow lacoste etyle tshirts and they all had caskets.
We lost some of our friedsn on the way.
We managed to get to laleh park and there was lots of riot olice there.
At the cross section of fatemi and kargar the robocops were waiting the ones in black with the rubberised gear.
We gave up and tried to get back home the streets were jammed, in one of the alleys running parallel to amirabad which is the main road running to the uni dormitories there was a commtion ,we could see the smoke of tear gas.
They were out in force, even had communication officers with their boxes on their backs.
Now they say someone was shot there, in amirabad.
We heard on the way, when mobiles came back to life that they have exploded two bombs in the shrine of Khomeini.
Don’t know what will happen next, only news from CNN and aljazeera. BBC Persian is out, most people can’t even get on the net.
There were lost of people lingering around the park and the streets for miles off asking whats’ going on and how they shd proceed.
One of us went further east and tried to get into azadi street from the west , west of Navab highway, but the same dipreesing of crowds.
One of our friends was hit on the knee, another was run over by car. She says the hospital was full of people coming in with broken heads and limbs.
We are home safe but apparently it’s going on in vanak square we know that amirabad ws in turmoil.
There were all kinds of people there not just rich westernised people, they have always been there in all the marches, the difference today we were not marching in peace, they were out to get rid of us. I still think some of the forces there were not realy into hurting us, it was the basij and the military fatigued riot police. Still some people say that these guys don’t speak Persian, I don’t know, I didn’t hear any Arabic spoken, some people belive most of these people are brought in from client states.
We were scared, but we went. We don’t what will happen next but if they organise it we have to go again, there’s no other way. We can’t let the extreme elemnets turn this into another Lebanon or Palestine. There is no way but to go out.
The bombing ofkhomeini’s tomb though is bad. They will balme it on the protestors. But we all feel this is their own work. The protestors don’t even have batons, just their fists and they are not yet using them. The bombing will give them a chance to declare martial law.
They are trying to create something bad here; civil war, military takeover…. I can’t believe they were so stupid as to do all this without knowing.
Let people know whatis happening here.
I wonder if the young girl we dragged out will live, there was so much blood.
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Balazs Gardi
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Sat Jun 20 20:11:02 UTC 2009
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United Kingdom
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