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| Iranian riot police are reported to have clashed with demonstrators defying government decrees to stop street protests over disputed elections. | Iranian riot police are reported to have clashed with demonstrators defying government decrees to stop street protests over disputed elections. |
| Eyewitness reports say there have been clashes near the parliament building in the capital Tehran, in the streets around Baharestan Square. | Eyewitness reports say there have been clashes near the parliament building in the capital Tehran, in the streets around Baharestan Square. |
| Reporting restrictions in Iran mean the BBC cannot verify the reports. | Reporting restrictions in Iran mean the BBC cannot verify the reports. |
| The new protests came hours after Iran's supreme leader said he would "not yield" over the election result. | |
| Ayatollah Ali Khamenei again said the result would stand, despite days of protests in which at least 17 people are reported to have died. | Ayatollah Ali Khamenei again said the result would stand, despite days of protests in which at least 17 people are reported to have died. |
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| The ayatollah has repeatedly demanded that the protests stop, but his calls have gone largely unheeded. | The ayatollah has repeatedly demanded that the protests stop, but his calls have gone largely unheeded. |
| Witnesses told the Associated Press that police beat protesters with batons, fired tear gas and shot into the air to disperse the crowd on Wednesday. | Witnesses told the Associated Press that police beat protesters with batons, fired tear gas and shot into the air to disperse the crowd on Wednesday. |
| Although some demonstrators fought police, others fled to another square about 2km (one mile) to the north, the witnesses said. | |
| Another witness told Reuters that the crowd had been dispersed by tear gas, but did not know of any casualties. | |
| The main protest leader, former prime minister Mir Hossein Mousavi, has not been seen in public for days, but his website quoted his wife as saying the protests would continue. | |
| Zahra Rahnavard was also quoted as demanding the release of people detained since the election. They include 25 employees of her husband's newspaper. | |
| "It is my duty to continue legal protests to preserve Iranian rights," she was quoted as saying on the website. | |
| President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared the winner of the 12 June poll. | |
| Mr Mousavi alleges the election was rigged and is demanding a re-run. | |
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