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In Tehran, Terror in Plain Clothes
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/cb7e8772-7d56-41a4-bb15-5ee83dea8ad8/3E396BE6-D767-4908-8E81-C2F411DA1BA9/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1905827_1899274,00.html" href="http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1905827_1899274,00.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.time.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1905827_1899274,00.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.time.com/img/BBDFB6B8-DF58-4E93-8133-604636C9CBB8" alt="A Mousavi supporter is beaten by men with rubber batons." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1905827_1899274,00.html"><P><SPAN>Pro-Government Enforcers</SPAN><BR />A Mousavi supporter is beaten by men with rubber batons. In the days after the election results were announced in favor of Ahmadinejad, brigades of men, some armed with hoses, clubs, truncheons and sticks appeared in Tehran's streets, fighting with opposition supporters. </P></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1905827_1899277,00.html" href="http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1905827_1899277,00.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.time.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1905827_1899277,00.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.time.com/img/6D112381-0684-4F06-9F9E-6FD47BCA33A0" alt="In a letter posted on his website on June 18, Mousavi wrote of men who lack uniforms, proper identification or anything that denotes them as public employees. " /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1905827_1899277,00.html"><P><SPAN>On Wheels</SPAN><BR />In a letter posted on his website on June 18, Mousavi wrote of men who lack uniforms, proper identification or anything that denotes them as public employees. "Just before the police show up they attack the demonstrations," he wrote. </P></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1905827_1899279,00.html" href="http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1905827_1899279,00.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.time.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1905827_1899279,00.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.time.com/img/A651A4A4-6336-44BF-8FFE-372C21988743" alt="Known collectively as Basijis, the brigades consist of officially recognized groups like Ansar Hezbollah, whose members undergo formal training, to smaller groups controlled by local clerics. " /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1905827_1899279,00.html"><P><SPAN>Confrontation</SPAN><BR />Known collectively as Basijis, the brigades consist of officially recognized groups like Ansar Hezbollah, whose members undergo formal training, to smaller groups controlled by local clerics. The word Basij in Persian roughly translates as mass mobilization. </P></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1905827_1899280,00.html" href="http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1905827_1899280,00.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.time.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1905827_1899280,00.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.time.com/img/3568AADA-47B7-498B-A149-370F9D15720A" alt="On June 14, one day after the election results were announced, a group of Basiji forced their way into Tehran University, where many Mousavi supporters were protesting." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1905827_1899280,00.html"><P><SPAN>Leverage</SPAN><BR />On June 14, one day after the election results were announced, a group of Basiji forced their way into Tehran University, where many Mousavi supporters were protesting. </P></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1905827_1899281,00.html" href="http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1905827_1899281,00.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.time.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1905827_1899281,00.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.time.com/img/0FB0E788-1DBB-43E0-96DB-4EA65EB12BF4" alt="The police officers in this frame appear to be doing nothing to stop the militia members." /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1905827_1899282,00.html" href="http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1905827_1899282,00.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.time.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1905827_1899282,00.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.time.com/img/0B966A74-B581-4890-9B1B-D92A87B8E2A9" alt="This photograph, posted on Twitter, was taken the day after the militias raged through the student dormitories. " /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1905827_1899283,00.html" href="http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1905827_1899283,00.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.time.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1905827_1899283,00.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.time.com/img/3678E539-2AE6-4DEB-91DB-98B3D3A97004" alt="A student surveys the scene in a dormitory public area after the attacks. The machine on the floor is an ATM." /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1905827_1899284,00.html" href="http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1905827_1899284,00.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.time.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1905827_1899284,00.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.time.com/img/3BDB39BB-BF3E-4AAA-A812-86EA0ED36073" alt="Men hurl rocks at Mousavi supporters at Tehran University on June 14." /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1905827_1899286,00.html" href="http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1905827_1899286,00.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.time.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1905827_1899286,00.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.time.com/img/178A7006-EE0F-49A9-A652-1DF9DEE4BAF8" alt="It is not known how many belong to the various Basiji groups. Estimates range from a few hundred thousand to more than a million." /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1905827_1899287,00.html" href="http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1905827_1899287,00.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.time.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1905827_1899287,00.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.time.com/img/F7C0C183-1FB1-4DAD-819B-DD378E5DEFAF" alt="Two students hold a shirt that they say belonged to a student beaten by the militias." /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3E396BE6-D767-4908-8E81-C2F411DA1BA9/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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