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To: BigBull who wrote (36572)	8/8/2002 6:54:46 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 281500

That looks legitimate to me. I just hope the CIA, at least, is up on it. Tuesday, August 06, 2002 SMCCDI: Possible deaths, tens of injured and hundreds of arrested on Aug. 5th Possible deaths, tens of injured and hundreds of arrested on Aug. 5th SMCCDI Information Committee August 6, 2002 Several demonstrators might have been killed while tens of others have been injured and hundreds were arrested during the bloody clashes that happened, on August 5th, in main Iranian cities. Reports from Tehran, Esfahan, Ghazvin, Shiraz and Mashad are all stating about the brutality used by the regime to crackdown on demonstrators who gathered to commemorate the 96th anniversary of the Constitutional Revolution of 1906. The regime forces made use of plastic bullets, Tear Gas, Clubs and Chains against non armed Iranians who defied the regime ban and chanted the banned National Anthem "Oh Iran!" and shouted slogans against the regime and its leaders. In the capital, the clashes rocked several areas, such as the historic "Baharestan" square, "Pamenar", "Sar Tcheshme", "Mohseni", "Tajrish", "Heshmati e", "Vali e Asr", as well as, the southern suburbs of "Rey" and "Eslam Shahr" and the western suburbs of "Ghohar Dasht" and "Pardis" loacted in Karadj. In many places the crowd angered by the brutal attacks of the Militiamen against women and elder people retaliated by throwing rocks, paves and incendiary devises on the regime forces by injuring several of them and damaging their vehicles. The anger and the popular retaliation took, in most places, by surprise the regime's forces who were used till now to beat without witnessing reaction. The prospects of the August 5th celebration and its deep message of "Secularity" forced the regime to limit the International Inbound-Outbound calls for several hours in order to undermine a hypothetical conspiracy of "foreign agents". According to the latest reports, at least 3 demonstrators have been killed in Tehran alone while tens of others have been seriously injured and some of them are in critical conditions. Hundreds of others have been arrested and their families are looking for them from a detention center to another. Astonishingly, none of the foreign news agencies, present in Iran, bothered to make any kind of comment about the big scale and unprecedented event that rocked Iran. Their reporters look like to fear of getting expelled or consider their governments? interests. Source: SMCCDIhttp://www.iran-daneshjoo.org/cgi-bin/smccdinews/viewnews.cgi?category=2&id=1028680659