** RE-TRANS OF LON409 WITH ALTERNATE CROP ** This photo, taken by an individual not employed by the Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran shows Iranian protestors beating police officers, during anti-government protest in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Dec. 27, 2009. (AP Photo) EDITORS NOTE AS A RESULT OF AN OFFICIAL IRANIAN GOVERNMENT BAN ON FOREIGN MEDIA COVERING SOME EVENTS IN IRAN, THE AP WAS PREVENTED FROM INDEPENDENT ACCESS TO THIS EVENT
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This photo, taken by an individual not employed by the Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran shows Iranian protestors flashing the victory sign, as they cover their faces to avoid to be identified by security during anti-government protest in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Dec. 27, 2009. (AP Photo) EDITORS NOTE AS A RESULT OF AN OFFICIAL IRANIAN GOVERNMENT BAN ON FOREIGN MEDIA COVERING SOME EVENTS IN IRAN, THE AP WAS PREVENTED FROM INDEPENDENT ACCESS TO THIS EVENT
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FILE - In this citizen photograph taken Sunday, June 28, 2009, Alireza Beheshti, center, who is close assistant of pro-reform leader Mir Hossein Mousavi, unseen, speaks during a gathering in Ghoba Mosque in Tehran, Iran. Beheshti was arrested along with at least six other prominent anti-government activists in a new crackdown against the country's reformist movement, opposition Web sites and activists reported Monday Dec. 28 2009. The arrests came a day after at least eight protesters were killed during anti-government marches marking Shiite Islam's most important observance. (AP Photo, file) ** EDITORS NOTE AS A RESULT OF AN OFFICIAL IRANIAN GOVERNMENT BAN ON FOREIGN MEDIA COVERING SOME EVENTS IN IRAN, THE AP IS PREVENTED FROM INDEPENDENT ACCESS TO THIS EVENT **
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Iranian mourners circle around a tent which is set on fire, in a ceremony commemorating Shiites' holy day of Ashoura, in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Dec. 27, 2009, marking the death of Imam Hussein, a grand son of Islam's prophet Mohammed, who was killed in a 680 A.D. battle at Karbala in Iraq. Mourners burn a green tent, as a symbol of Imam Hussein's tent. (AP Photo/Mehr News Agency, Majid Asgaripour)
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FILE - Iranian political dissident, Ebrahim Yazdi, leader of the Iran's Freedom Movement speaks with the media during a press conference in Tehran, Iran, in this Tuesday, March 8, 2005 file photo. Yazdi, who served as foreign minister after Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution, was arrested along with at least six other prominent anti-government activists in a new crackdown against the country's reformist movement, opposition Web sites and activists reported Monday Dec. 28 2009. The arrests came a day after at least eight protesters were killed during anti-government marches marking Shiite Islam's most important observance. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, file)
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FILE - Iranian political dissident, Ebrahim Yazdi, leader of the Iran's Freedom Movement speaks with the media during a press conference in Tehran, Iran, in this Tuesday, March 8, 2005 file photo. Yazdi, who served as foreign minister after Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution, was arrested along with at least six other prominent anti-government activists in a new crackdown against the country's reformist movement, opposition Web sites and activists reported Monday Dec. 28 2009. The arrests came a day after at least eight protesters were killed during anti-government marches marking Shiite Islam's most important observance. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, file)
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FILE - In this citizen photograph taken Sunday, June 28, 2009, Alireza Beheshti, center, who is close assistant of pro-reform leader Mir Hossein Mousavi, unseen, speaks during a gathering in Ghoba Mosque in Tehran, Iran. Beheshti was arrested along with at least six other prominent anti-government activists in a new crackdown against the country's reformist movement, opposition Web sites and activists reported Monday Dec. 28 2009. The arrests came a day after at least eight protesters were killed during anti-government marches marking Shiite Islam's most important observance. (AP Photo, file) ** EDITORS NOTE AS A RESULT OF AN OFFICIAL IRANIAN GOVERNMENT BAN ON FOREIGN MEDIA COVERING SOME EVENTS IN IRAN, THE AP IS PREVENTED FROM INDEPENDENT ACCESS TO THIS EVENT **
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(FILES) Iranian human rights campaigner Emaddedin Baghi laughs during a meeting in his office on November 22, 2005. Iran's government cracked down on its opponents on December 28, 2009, websites said, arresting Baghi and opposition leader Ebrahim Yazdi as well as several opposition aides after eight people died in fierce clashes in Tehran. AFP PHOTO/Henghameh FAHIMI (Photo credit should read HENGHAMEH FAHIMI/AFP/Getty Images)
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This photo, taken by an individual not employed by the Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran shows an Iranian anti-riot police officer, center, held by protestors, as they put a green scarf, a symbolic color of opposition, on his head after their clash during anti-government protest at the Enqelab (Revolution) St. in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Dec. 27, 2009. (AP Photo) EDITORS NOTE AS A RESULT OF AN OFFICIAL IRANIAN GOVERNMENT BAN ON FOREIGN MEDIA COVERING SOME EVENTS IN IRAN, THE AP WAS PREVENTED FROM INDEPENDENT ACCESS TO THIS EVENT
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An injured Iranian opposition supporter flashes a V-sign during clashes with security forces in Tehran on December 27, 2009. At least five protesters were killed in clashes with security forces in central Tehran as the opposition used a Shiite mourning event to stage anti-government protests, an opposition website said. TOPSHOTS AFP PHOTO/Amir Sadeghi (Photo credit should read AMIR SADEGHI/AFP/Getty Images)
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