June 20: Minute by Minute from Iran
Excerpts from Revolutionary Road, 25-year old blogger in Iran. Information should be taken provisionally until confirmed.
3:50pm
CRUCIAL Demonstration on today 16:00 in Tehran and all around the world. IT IS STILL ON ,PEOPLE ARE IN ENQELAB sq!
3:55pm
political and students activists: we will resist at the risk of imprisonment, Will go to Enghelab Sq today for sure
3:58pm
horrible news from Enqelab st. its full of special forces…
4:00
Mobiles in the Enghelab area have been cut off
4:05
enghelab sq and the streets are filled with police and plain clothes with batons in hands
4:10
Protest starts NOW
4:15
“large groups” of people were gathering in Tehran’s Revolution Square
4:17
People going to Enghelab in larg numbers and growing rapidly. police there but not doing anything
4:20
azadi and enghelab packed with protesters (and plain-clothed, armed militia)
4:30
Riot police and Revolutionary Guards(basidj) attacked people with batone
4:40
They have used tear gases to disperse crowds. People are fleeing into Laleh Park.
4:50
we can see Marksmans in ferdosi square!
4:55
protesters are appealing to the police to join them!
4:57
The police asked people before the basijis conflict with them Became dispersed,Police guard are all the streets of Tehran. Streets full of the population!
5:00
basij blocking madani and dastgheyb st. tear gas in shahid rezaee. again basij without uniform among people5:02
special guards confronted with people, attacked them with batton dispersed them into small ally ways
5:10
Thousands of people attempting to enter Tehran protest site have been blocked by heavily armed police
5:20
HARD conflict between the people and the Riot polices at khosh ST! Continue reading and see latest pictures here.
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