THE TELEGRAPH: Iran's opposition held another rally and stepped up its challenge to the Islamic regime, as the authorities intensified a crackdown on the media to try to contain the biggest crisis since the 1979 revolution.
Tens of thousands of supporters of the defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi took part in what was billed as a "silent" protest rally, marching through central Tehran, witnesses said.
Wearing green wrist- and headbands in the colour of Mousavi's campaign, the demonstrators carried placards accusing re-elected President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of having "stolen" their votes in Friday's poll.
Iranian state television broadcast footage of the rally. >>> By The Telegraph’s Foreign Staff | Wednesday, June 17, 2009
TIMES ONLINE: More Than 100,000 Join Defiant Silent Protest in Tehran
At least 100,000 demonstrators marched silently through the streets of Tehran tonight in a direct challenge to the authority of Iran's clerical regime.
Witnesses said that the protesters, both young and old and many accompanied by children, marched through central Tehran Haft-e Tir square towards Vali Asr square in the heart of the city.
The rally was called by the defeated presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi to protest against the "shameful fraud" that saw Mahmoud Ahmadinejad re-elected by a landslide in last Friday's election.
Mr Mousavi's appeal to supporters, issued via his website, flew in the face of a declaration by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's Supreme Leader, that the former prime minister should pursue his objectives through the electoral system and not on the streets. >>> Ella Flaye in Tehran and Philippe Naughton | Wednesday, June 17, 2009
