After a quiet day of protests yesterday, it appears the situation has heated up once again in Iran – Specifically in Baharestan Square. Check out the live blogging notes, pictures and video:
>The streets, squares and around BAHARESTAN (Approx. South-eastern of Tehran) is swarming with military forces, civilian forces, the security motorists
>Political prisoners and jurnalists were taken to critical condition in 209 Evin, washington times’s jurnalist was arrest!
>The military plain clothes have entered the crowd with high speed on bikes, they are beating people with cable and batons, almost everyone in the crowd is injured, there is blood everywhere!
>In Baharestan we saw militia with axe choping people like meat – blood everywhere – like butcher
>All shops and Passages are closed at Baharestan SQ, Gunshot being heard from Jomhori St
If any of this is true, the situation on the ground is unimaginable. It would also explain why Iran has been pushing the media out of the country – so the government could do whatever it wishes without the world watching. Also check out Tehran Bureau for updates.
UPDATE #1: Here is a transcript of an eyewitness account of Baharestan Square. Remember, the situation is fluid – most is unconfirmed – but it’s apparent something of note is going on.
UPDATE #2: Apparently the Iranian prosecutor of the Islamic Revolutionary Court, Saeed Motazavi, is now in charge of the crack down on protesters. He was also the man who oversaw the arrest and trial of Roxana Saberi, the American-Iranian journalist sentenced to eight years for spying.
UPDATE #3: Andrew Sullivan has a few quotes about the situation in the Square, also points out that far right candidate Mohsen Rezaie is no longer contesting the vote due to “political, social and security”.
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