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Hello and welcome to the latest global news recorded at 02:00 GMT on Tuesday, 16th June.
This is Max Pieerson with the selection of highlights from across BBC World Service News today.
Coming up: will people power win the day in Iran? Hundreds of thousands of protesters on the streets of Tehran, security forces respond with gunfire and intimidation.
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Post-election Iran is still a turbulent place. The legal appeal by the opposition stander bearer Mir Hossein Mousavi has yet to run its course. And in the mean time, he’s drawn hundreds of thousand of people out onto the streets for a massive demonstration. There were some incidents of violence. One person was killed in gunfire coming from a pro-government militia building in Tehran. Our correspondent John Lion was out on the streets during the protests.
I was down at the rally and the atmosphere there was just quiet unbelievable. People had suddenly thrown off the mental of fear that’s ruled this country for I don’t know how long and were going out in complete defiance of pretty unveiled threats from the authorities, were enjoying themselves, were encouraging us to film them, and were speaking out open against the system, against Supreme Leader, against everything the country stands for, really. So that was a moment of freedom really. As soon as we got into the traffic jam, going into the rally, you could, we kind of felt safe, just safe in numbers. Suddenly all around us were people in cars, waved in V signs. And green, the color the opposition honking their horns. And you could see that nobody can come and attack you once you were into the crowd. You realized you were amongst the million people. And I think the security forces realized that, we saw a small group of riot police, sort of Ramallahs were wait for the demonstration, they just stood near by the side of road. And even in the demonstration itself, I am sure there were secret police officers in the crowd as it always are here, but they didn’t dare come up to us and trying to stop us filming as they usually do. I sensed that of course we’ve had what’s the gunfire on the rally, the circumstances run a little bit murky, but somebody has been killed. So I wasn’t there when that happened, but I can see obviously the fear will creep back in and the fear here is always in the background. What is the government going to do? How is it going to respond to this protest?
John Lion in Tehran.
While in the main, the authorities appeared to have let Monday’s mass demonstration passed off without challenge. There have been incidents in which opposition activists have been confronted by the forces of the state. We’ve been speaking to a student in Tehran who asked not to be identified. He’d been involved in a sit-in at Tehran University and told us what happened when the police turned up.
They detained at least about 200 students because there were 3 buses out there and all were filled after they arrived. They injured me and some of my friends had witnessed some scenes. That was like bloodshed. They had some knives with their lock sured. I’ve sustained some severe injuries, but I don’t feel any pain anywhere, but my heart.
The experiences of one student at Tehran University.
The Obama administration has been watching events in Iran closely. It was in the, this month of the American president reached out to Iran and a wider Islamic world in a major speech in Cairo. The upheaval surrounding the election has left WDC with a problem. In his first comments on the contested election, President Obama was at pains to stress that it is for Iranians themselves to resolve their differences, but he added that he was deeply troubled by reports of violence.
Ambassador William Louis is with the Council on foreign relations in WDC
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