Disputing Election, Pro-reform Marchers Fill Tehran Streets | Online NewsHour | June 15, 2009 | PBS: Via PBS Online NewsHour | June 15, 2009.

Tens of thousands of supporters of Iranian pro-reform leader Mir Hossein Mousavi streamed into the center of Tehran Monday in a boisterous protest against Friday's election results that declared President Mamoud Ahmadinejad the winner.

Shouting "Allahu akbar" (God is great), they converged on Revolution Square, where the moderate former prime minister was expected to call for calm after two days of violent unrest in the capital, which have marked the starkest display of discontent in the Islamic Republic in years.

The crowd -- many wearing the trademark green color of Mousavi's campaign -- was the largest display of opposition unity since Friday's elections ended with Mousavi claiming widespread fraud.

"Mousavi, take back our votes," the marchers chanted as they waited for Mousavi and other pro-reform leaders who back his call for the election result to be overturned.
( Read more ... )