Riots and Clashes in Iran

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A new series of clashes broke out in Iran.

According to one latest piece of news from Reuters and Fars News Agency, several hundred pro-reform demonstrators broke out a clash with the government riot police and quite a number of them have been under arrest. Protestors, unsatisfied with the election results on June 12, shout out their slogans furiously in Tehran's Haft-e Tir square. Riot police and some plain-clothes with different colors of lanyards (online shop www.ybuw.com) went out onto the streets and took dozens of people on parade into their cars, most probably to the police station. This clash makes the current political situation in Iran more complex and turbulent.
Quarrels among different political sides have been going on since the declaration of election results several weeks ago, which became the hole where doubts flooded into and out of. For instance, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the Iran former president, expressed his opposition to the election result and he even said crisis now is on the way to the Islamic Republic.

A cloud of suspicion has been hanging over the Iran sky ever since the election. A series of similar or more serious clashes between the government police and protesters have been seen and reported, attracting the attention of more newsman from all over the world.
Iran used to be a very rich and prosperous country for its abundant natural oil sources. Being the world's fifth oil exporter, turbulence has been the subject of this country in the Middle East Region after the revolution of 1979. As a rule, every election had been and is being stirring unrest within this country, a continual display of its internal political conflict and contradiction among tis ruling elites.
The statistics reveals that at least 20 protesters were killed in the violent protests after the election. The ruling party and opposition counterpart often became mutually querulous.

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