Iran elections: Supreme leader to speak out as silent, angry protests continue: Via The Guardian(UK).
ran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is expected to combine a call for calm tomorrow with a warning of severe consequences if protests continue over last week's "stolen" presidential election.
Khamenei's address, to be made during Friday prayers at Tehran University, will be carefully scrutinised for clues as to how the Islamic regime plans to proceed a week after the disputed poll triggered the worst unrest since the 1979 revolution.
It follows another day of massive protests in the streets of the capital, with tens of thousands of supporters of Mir Hossein Mousavi, who claims he won the election, marching silently to mourn those killed since the shock announcement last Saturday that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had won a second four-year term,
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