"I see many ppl with broken arms/legs/heads – blood everywhere – pepper gas like war…
ppl run into alleys and militia standing there waiting – from 2 sides they attack ppl in middle of alleys…
saw 7/8 militia beating one woman with baton on ground – she had no defense nothing -… so many ppl arrested – young & old – they take ppl away"
just in from Baharestan Sq – situation today is terrible – they beat the ppls like animals
Ppl gathered in Baharestan but police & plain cloths don’t let the core of the rally to form.
– Persiankiwi and other tweeters.
These shards of news – posted by Mackey and Nico – have an echo in Khamenei's increasingly intransigent statements and far right candidate Mohsen Rezaie's withdrawal from contesting the results:
In a letter to the Guardian Council, the leading electoral oversight body, Mr. Rezai said the current “political, social and security situation has entered a sensitive and decisive phase, which is more important than the election,” Press TV, state television’s English-language satellite broadcaster, said. The letter was sent to the secretary of the Guardian Council, Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, the broadcaster said on its Web site.
The Dish 