Behnaz: The regime is putting a lot of pressure on the families of demonstrators who've been detained and killed. When you see how they treat people on the streets, in front of everyone, what must they be doing to those who are in detention?

LN: Were the elections manipulated, or were there only isolated instances of manipulation?

Behnaz: If the elections had been perfectly in order, why would the government be so resistant to holding them again? They should, after all, produce the same result. Why, instead of that, do they prefer to kill so many innocent people on the streets?

First-hand reports from Tehran and around the country portray physical brutality and police state threats as widespread. It's important to remember this as the junta continues to give an impression - that the MSM cannot counter without reporters on the ground - of greater calm, and the next Big Lie that the protests were some kind of British conspiracy.