Iran protests video

Clashes between anti-government protesters and police in Tehran have left at least four people dead. People in Tehran have sent footage from the protests to NationalTurk and video-sharing sites.

Iran said it was summoning Simon Glass, the British ambassador in Tehran, to the Foreign Ministry on Tuesday as the government accused Western countries of supporting protesters after violent demonstrations rocked cities across Iran and left at least eight people dead, news agencies reported.

Speaking to reporters, the Foreign Ministry spokesman, Ramin Mehmanparast, said countries including the United States and Britain had miscalculated in criticizing the government’s crackdown on the demonstrators.

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“Some Western countries are supporting this sort of activities. This is intervention in our internal affairs. We strongly condemn it,” he said, according to The Associated Press. “In this regard, the British ambassador will be summoned today.”

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The group Human Rights Activists in Iran said that the 1,100 people arrested in Tehran were being held in Evin Prison, the Gooya Web site reported.

Over the weekend, Iran’s theocratic regime was caught off guard by a wave of protests that coincided with Ashura, the Shia religious holiday commemorating the death of Imam Hussein. The protests were some of the biggest — and bloodiest — protests Iran has seen since the election protests this summer. The response of the authorities was swift, and deadly: Iran’s state-controlled Press TV said that at least eight people were killed in the crackdown. Ali Habibi-Mousavi, the nephew of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi, was reportedly one of those killed.

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