Timeline of the 2009 Iranian election protests#June 28

In what had become the worst civil unrest in Iran in over a decade, clashes broke out between police and groups protesting the election results from early Saturday morning onward. Protests were initially mostly peaceful but became increasingly violent. Demonstrators chanted phrases such as "Down with the dictator", "Death to the dictator", and "Give us our votes back".{{cite news|first=Dudi|last=Cohen|date=June 14, 2009|access-date=June 14, 2009|url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3730786,00.html|title=Tehran youth: I'll never vote in Iran again}} Mousavi urged for calm and asked that his supporters refrain from acts of violence.{{cite news|publisher=BBC News|title=Ahmadinejad defiant on 'free' Iran poll |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8099115.stm|date=June 13, 2009|access-date=June 13, 2009}}

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Anonymous sources said that the police stormed the headquarters of the Islamic Iran Participation Front and arrested a number of people.{{cite news|title=Election Battles Turn Into Street Fights in Iran |publisher=ABC News |url=https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=7830630 |date=June 13, 2009 |access-date=June 13, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090616044520/http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=7830630 |archive-date=June 16, 2009 }}{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8099218.stm |title=Iran reformists held after street clashes |publisher=BBC News |date=2009-06-14}}

Two hundred people protested outside Iran's embassy in London.{{cite news|language=fr |publisher=Yahoo! France |title=Manifestation devant l'ambassade d'Iran à Londres |url=http://fr.news.yahoo.com/3/20090613/twl-iran-presidentielle-gb-manifestation-ba66223.html |access-date=June 13, 2009 |date=June 13, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604113522/http://fr.news.yahoo.com/3/20090613/twl-iran-presidentielle-gb-manifestation-ba66223.html |archive-date= June 4, 2011 }} Protests led by Iranian-Americans were also held outside the Iranian representative office in New York City.{{cite web |last=Milburn |first=Ty |url=http://www.ny1.com/content/top_stories/100727/iranian-new-yorkers-protest-ahmadinejad-s-re-election/Default.aspx |title=24 Hour Local News | Top Stories | Iranian New Yorkers Protest Ahmadinejad's Re-Election |publisher=NY1 |access-date=2009-06-15 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090617064443/http://www.ny1.com/content/top_stories/100727/iranian-new-yorkers-protest-ahmadinejad-s-re-election/Default.aspx |archive-date=2009-06-17 }}

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On Sunday, protests grew considerably in scope and violence, leading Al Jazeera English to describe the situation as the "biggest unrest since the 1979 revolution". It also reported that protests seemed spontaneous without any formal organization.{{cite news|url=http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/06/2009613172130303995.html.|title=Poll results prompt Iran protests|publisher=Al Jazeera English|access-date=June 13, 2009|date=June 13, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090618073345/http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/06/2009613172130303995.html.|archive-date=June 18, 2009}} Buses and trash cans were burned, and parked cars blocked streets and highways in Tehran and routes leading into the city. Protesters attacked shops, government offices, police stations, police vehicles, gas stations and banks.{{cite news|title=Iran Election sparks clashes |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8098942.stm|date=2009-06-14|access-date=2009-06-14|publisher=BBC News}} Barricades were installed around all government ministries, embassies (there were reports of shootings outside the Russian Embassy, which supported the election results), Mehrabad and Imam Khomeini International Airport, where there were scenes of large clashes with riot police. Large protests, which escalated into riots, broke out at Tehran University, Amirkabir University, and Shahid Beheshti University.{{cite news|title=Ahmadinejad hails election as protests grow |url=http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/13/iran.election/index.html#cnnSTCVideo|access-date=2009-06-14|publisher=BBC News |date=June 13, 2009}} Other protests occurred in Ahwaz, Shiraz, Gorgan, Tabriz, Rasht, Babol, Mashhad, Isfahan, Zahedan, Qazvin, Sari, Karaj, Tabriz, Shahsavar, Orumieh, Bandar Abbas, Arak, and Birjend.{{cite news|title=Popular uprising a stamp of rejection of sham election, display of Iranians' determination|url=http://ncr-iran.org/content/view/6488/1/|date=2009-06-14|access-date=2009-06-14|publisher=NCR|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090618061222/http://ncr-iran.org/content/view/6488/1/|archive-date=2009-06-18}} In Gorgan, protestors broke into a Basij base and killed several IRGC officials,{{citation needed|date=October 2013}} causing mass purges and attacks in the city. Since riot police are largely limited to Tehran, the IRGC and the Basij were dispatched to quell protests in other cities.

Reporters from the Italian state-owned television broadcaster RAI stated that one of its interpreters was beaten with clubs by riot police and the officers then confiscated the cameraman's tapes. Also several BBC cameramen were beaten and arrested by IRGC officials and had their tapes confiscated.{{cite web|title=Stop the blocking now |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2009/06/stop_the_blocking_now.html|date=2009-06-14|access-date=2009-06-14|publisher=BBC News}}

On the night between the June 14 and 15, 15 students were severely injured by beating or killed when police and basij attacked Tehran University dormitories.{{cite web|author=Copyright: gooya.com 2009 |url=http://news.gooya.com/politics/archives/2009/06/089209.php |title=gooya news: politics: کوی دانشگاه تهران به خاک و خون کشیده شد، بامدادخبر |publisher=News.gooya.com |access-date=2009-06-15}}{{qn|date=October 2013}} 120 faculty members of Sharif University of Technology resigned in protest of the alleged electoral fraud and began a protest against Ahmadinejad's re-election as President.[https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/14/iran-election-live-bloggi_n_215449.html Mass resignations at Sharif University, June 14, 2009]. huffingtonpost.com

Protests were organized outside the United Nations in New York City;{{cite news|last=Mackey |first=Robert |url=http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/13/landslide-or-fraud-the-debate-online-over-irans-election-results/ |title=Landslide or Fraud? The Debate Online Over Iran's Election Results — The Lede Blog |work=New York Times |access-date=2009-06-15 |date=June 13, 2009}} in front of the Iranian embassies in Paris,{{cite web|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/mousavi1388/3624965104/ |title=Paris Protests on Flickr — Photo Sharing! |date=14 June 2009 |publisher=Flickr.com |access-date=2009-06-15}} Berlin,{{cite web |url=http://www.tweetphoto.com/19852zpe |title=People protesting at the Iranian embassy in Berlin #iranelection |publisher=TweetPhoto |access-date=2009-06-15 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090617073047/http://www.tweetphoto.com/19852zpe |archive-date=2009-06-17 }} London, and Iranian consulate in Sydney;{{cite web|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/mousavi1388/3625067036/ |title=London Protests on Flickr — Photo Sharing! |publisher=Flickr.com |access-date=2009-06-15}} and in a public square in Toronto.{{cite news|url=https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/650762 |title=Thousands in Toronto protest Ahmadinejad's disputed re-election |work=TheStar.com |access-date=2009-06-15 |first=Kenyon |last=Wallace |date=June 15, 2009}} Protests also occurred in Kuala Lumpur,[http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Tuesday/National/2583445/Article/index_html Cops break up Iranian protest ], New Straits Times, June 16, 2009 Los Angeles,{{cite news|title=Iranian Americans protest Iran election results|publisher=China View|date=15 June 2009 |url=http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-06/15/content_11545125.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090618111246/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-06/15/content_11545125.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 18, 2009 |access-date=18 June 2009}} San Diego,{{cite web |url=http://www.cbs8.com/global/category.asp?c=155799&clipId=3865855&topVideoCatNo=default&topVideoCatNoB=155712&topVideoCatNoC=155713&topVideoCatNoD=155710&topVideoCatNoE=155711&autoStart=true |title=Video Landing Page — San Diego, California News Station — KFMB Channel 8 |publisher=cbs8.com |access-date=2009-06-20 |archive-date=2009-06-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090628193926/http://www.cbs8.com/global/category.asp?c=155799&clipId=3865855&topVideoCatNo=default&topVideoCatNoB=155712&topVideoCatNoC=155713&topVideoCatNoD=155710&topVideoCatNoE=155711&autoStart=true |url-status=dead }} San Francisco{{cite news|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/14/MNJG186UIM.DTL |title=Bay Area expatriates protest Iran election |publisher=Sfgate.com |date=2009-06-14 |access-date=2009-06-20 |first=Jaxon |last=Van Derbeken}} and Dubai.[https://web.archive.org/web/20101210021329/http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hdDle0ylGOtWJ_3JDb0PbxN4MUsg Dubai Iranians protest Ahmadinejad's 'rigged' win], AFP, June 15, 2009 Other protests had been organized in front of the Iranian embassies in Turkey, Paris,{{cite news|publisher=BBC Persian|date=14 June 2009|access-date=17 June 2009|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/persian/iran/2009/06/090614_p_ir88_protests.shtml |title=Iranians Protests Across the World (In Persian)}} Berlin, London,{{cite news|publisher=Yahoo! Canada |url=http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/090614/world/iran_vote_britain_protest |title=Protesters rally outside Iranian embassy in London |access-date=14 June 2009 |date=14 June 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090629121855/http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/090614/world/iran_vote_britain_protest |archive-date=June 29, 2009 }} Milan, Rome,{{cite news|url=http://www.tgcom.mediaset.it/mondo/articoli/articolo452407.shtml|title=Voto Iran, corteo studenti a Roma|language=it|publisher=TGCOM|access-date=14 June 2009|date=13 June 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090615084314/http://www.tgcom.mediaset.it/mondo/articoli/articolo452407.shtml|archive-date=15 June 2009|url-status=dead}} Vienna, and The Hague.{{cite news|title=Tweehonderd demonstranten bij ambassade Iran|publisher=NRC Handelsblad|access-date=15 June 2009|date=14 June 2009|language=nl|url=http://www.nrc.nl/binnenland/article2271183.ece/Tweehonderd_demonstranten_bij_ambassade_Iran|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090616073952/http://www.nrc.nl/binnenland/article2271183.ece/Tweehonderd_demonstranten_bij_ambassade_Iran|archive-date=16 June 2009|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}} In addition, a large counter-demonstration celebrating the reelection of Ahmadinejad took place in central Tehran.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8099501.stm |title=Crowds join Ahmadinejad victory rally |publisher=BBC News |date=2009-06-04 |access-date=2009-06-15}}

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On June 15, Mousavi made his first post-election appearance, before supporters numbered at two million or more, at a rally in Tehran's Freedom Square, despite being warned by state officials that any such rally would be illegal.{{cite news |url=http://cnnwire.blogs.cnn.com/2009/06/15/defeated-iran-candidate-appears-at-rally-4/ |title=Defeated Iran candidate appears at rally |publisher=CNN |date=2009-06-15 |access-date=2009-06-20 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090617232738/http://cnnwire.blogs.cnn.com/2009/06/15/defeated-iran-candidate-appears-at-rally-4/ |archive-date=2009-06-17 }}{{cite web |url=http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Iran-Election-Mirhossein-Mousavi-Supporters-Defy-Protest-Ban-Over-Ahmadinejad-Victory/Article/200906315305665?lpos=World_News_Carousel_Region_3&lid=ARTICLE_15305665_Iran_Election%3A_Mirhossein_Mousavi_Supporters_Defy_Protest_Ban_Over_Ahmadinejad_Victory |title=Mousavi Supporters Defy Protest Ban Over Ahmadinejad Victory |publisher=Sky News |access-date=2009-06-20 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090618141605/http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Iran-Election-Mirhossein-Mousavi-Supporters-Defy-Protest-Ban-Over-Ahmadinejad-Victory/Article/200906315305665?lpos=World_News_Carousel_Region_3&lid=ARTICLE_15305665_Iran_Election%3A_Mirhossein_Mousavi_Supporters_Defy_Protest_Ban_Over_Ahmadinejad_Victory |archive-date=2009-06-18 }} Shots were fired from a compound used by Basij pro-government militia, apparently killing seven demonstrators, after the crowd allegedly attacked the militia's compound.{{cite news|title=20 killed at opposition rallies across Iran|date=June 18, 2009| publisher=Haaretz.com |url=http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1093101.html}}{{cite news|date=15 June 2009|access-date=15 June 2009|title=Protester killed, others hurt at Tehran rally|publisher=NBC News |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna31365097}} Iranian authorities arrested one man over the shooting.{{Citation needed|date=June 2009}} Besides this incident, the protest appeared peaceful.{{cite news|title=Ahmadinejad's reelection

|url=https://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iran-election16-2009jun16,0,2315785.story |archive-url=https://archive.today/20090618135637/http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iran-election16-2009jun16,0,2315785.story |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 18, 2009 | work=Los Angeles Times | access-date=May 25, 2010}} Several rallies of smaller scale took place in other Iranian cities.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8101628.stm |title=Middle East Poll loser Mousavi at Iran rally |publisher=BBC News |date=2009-06-15 |access-date=2009-06-15}}

Solidarity protests took place in Montreal at Place des Arts;{{cite news|title=Malaysia police fire tear gas on Iran election protest|url=https://montrealgazette.com/news/Hundreds+Iranian+Canadians+rally+Place+Arts/1698701/story.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090619073040/http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Hundreds+Iranian+Canadians+rally+Place+Arts/1698701/story.html|archive-date=2009-06-19}} in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where police fired tear gas to break up a protest at the city's United Nations building;{{Cite web|url=https://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jVhmpJUAuT57CXXYX-OUTc7k8E7Q|archive-url=https://archive.today/20090625164147/http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jVhmpJUAuT57CXXYX-OUTc7k8E7Q|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 25, 2009|title=Hundreds of Iranian-Canadians rally at Place des Arts}} in Chicago; and in Copenhagen.{{Cite web|url=https://ekstrabladet.dk/nyheder/samfund/article4219498.ece|title=Håb for Irans unge|first=Af Mette|last=Fleckner|date=June 16, 2009|website=ekstrabladet.dk}}

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Thousands of people massed the streets of Tehran again.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8103577.stm |title=Middle East | Iran opposition keeps up pressure |publisher=BBC News |date=2009-06-16 |access-date=2009-06-20}}{{cite news|title=Opposition in Iran Rejects Call for Partial Recount |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/17/world/middleeast/17iran.html | work=The New York Times | first=Nazila | last=Fathi | date=June 17, 2009 | access-date=March 28, 2010}}

A British journalist reported seeing special police keeping Basijs and demonstrators separated.{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-fear-has-gone-in-a-land-that-has-tasted-freedom-1706912.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220507/https://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-fear-has-gone-in-a-land-that-has-tasted-freedom-1706912.html |archive-date=2022-05-07 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Robert Fisk: Fear has gone in a land that has tasted freedom|date=2009-06-17|access-date=2009-06-17|work=The Independent | location=London}} Over 120 Tehran University professors who had resigned in protest of violence against students joined the protests after security forces violently raided university dormitories.{{cite news|url=http://ncr-iran.org/content/view/6509/1/|title=Iran: 120 professors resign and join sit-in by students in Tehran University|date=2009-06-16|access-date=2009-06-16|publisher=National Council of Resistance of Iran|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090618061227/http://ncr-iran.org/content/view/6509/1/|archive-date=2009-06-18}}

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The Guardian Council announced that it was prepared to order a partial recount, and ruled out an annulment of the vote. The concession was rejected by the main opposition candidate, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, demanding that a new election be held.

The Iranian national football team played against South Korea's team in Seoul on Wednesday, with some members of the Iranian team wearing green armbands in support of Mousavi.{{cite news|title=Iran's star footballers show support for Moussavi|url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1e2c6eee-5b3b-11de-be3f-00144feabdc0.html|publisher=Financial times|access-date=June 17, 2009}}

Another demonstration was held in Tehran centering on the 7 Tir Square. Estimates of the number of participants ranged between 70,000 and 500,000.{{cite news|work=BBC News |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8104466.stm|title=Fresh rally takes place in Tehran|date=2009-06-18}}

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Candle-bearing protesters massed in central Tehran on Thursday near Toopkhaneh square, following a call by Mousavi to commemorate those who were killed on Monday's protests. Varying reports placed the crowd size between "tens of thousands"{{cite news|work=Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iran-protests19-2009jun19,0,4249713.story|title=Iran protests continue for fourth day |date=2009-06-18 | first1=Borzou | last1=Daragahi | first2=Ramin | last2=Mostaghim | first3=Kim | last3=Murphy | access-date=May 25, 2010}} and "more than 100,000."{{cite news|work=BBC |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8108115.stm|title=Masses mourn protesters in Iran |date=2009-06-18}} A second, simultaneous protest with several hundred participants took place near the UN headquarters, while a counter rally was held by hard line students protesting former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani's role in the pro-Mousavi protests.

The Guardian Council invited the three major challengers to meet to discuss their grievances.{{cite news|work=New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/19/world/middleeast/19iran.html |title=Protesters Gather Again, as Iran Panel Offers Talks |date=2009-06-18 | first1=Nazila | last1=Fathi | first2=Michael | last2=Slackman | access-date=March 28, 2010}}

Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei spoke about the previous protests during his scheduled television appearance.[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8108115.stm Masses mourn protesters in Iran]. BBC News Online. June 18, 2009 He argued that "media belonging to Zionists, evil media," were trying to divide the state and Western powers were casting doubts on the election.{{cite news|title=Ruling Cleric Warns Iranian Protesters|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/20/world/middleeast/20iran.html |date=June 19, 2009|work=New York Times|author1=Nazila Fathi |author2=Alan Cowell |name-list-style=amp |access-date=June 19, 2009}} He announced that he would not to be willing to give in to "illegal pressures" to change the results, and said that the opposition leaders would be "responsible for bloodshed and chaos" if they did not stop the demonstrations.{{cite news|title=Amnesty says up to 10 dead in Iran protests|url=https://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hmI8SkGap6fUGvyrbGIRk5oKCA9Q|archive-url=https://archive.today/20090709062841/http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hmI8SkGap6fUGvyrbGIRk5oKCA9Q|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 9, 2009|date=June 19, 2009|publisher=AFP|access-date=June 19, 2009}}

Hours after Khamenei's speech, defeated candidate Mehdi Karoubi called for election results to be cancelled."{{cite news|title=Iran's Karoubi calls for election cancellation|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSEVA961207|date=June 19, 2009|publisher=Reuters}}

Mousavi spokesman Mohsen Makhmalbaf said "Mousavi's headquarters was wrecked by plainclothes police officers" with many staffers arrested, and Mousavi himself ordered by the Revolutionary Guard to stay silent. Makhmalbaf said his job was "to urge people to take to the streets because Mousavi could not do so directly".{{cite news|title=I speak for Mousavi. And Iran|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2009/jun/19/iran-election-mousavi-ahmadinejad|date=June 19, 2009|author=Mohsen Makhmalbaf|work=The Guardian|access-date=June 19, 2009 | location=London}}

Both houses of the US Congress condemned violence against demonstrators by the Iranian government.Stephen Collinson, [https://archive.today/20130124165032/http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ilgdyjrMe9wWMPc6rjNjGoq3eCeA Obama urges Iran to stop 'violent and unjust actions'], AFP 20-06-2009

An underground newspaper entitled خيابان, or "The Street," also printed an issue dated June 19.{{cite news|url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2009/06/iran-street-newspaper-distributed-by-protesters.html|title=IRAN: 'Street' newspaper is being distributed by protesters|access-date=2009-06-29 | work=Los Angeles Times | date=June 20, 2009}}

State-run television reported that at least 10 were killed and 100 injured on Saturday, as thousands of protesters swept into the streets of Tehran, in open defiance of warnings issued Friday by Iran's Supreme Leader and Security Council. State media said 457 people had been detained over Saturday's violence. {{Citation needed|date=June 2009}}. A young Iranian woman, identified as Neda Soltan,{{cite news|language=fr|publisher=egoblog.net|title=Her name was Neda|url=http://egoblog.net/2009/06/21/her-name-was-neda/ | access-date = June 21, 2009| date = June 21, 2009}} was shot by the Basij and died in front of cameras on Kargar Avenue in Tehran.{{cite news|publisher=BreakForNews.com|title=Unidentified Woman Shot Dead in Karegar Ave - 20 June 2009|url=http://breakfornews.com/KarekarAveShooting090620.htm|access-date=June 20, 2009|date=June 20, 2009|archive-date=June 23, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090623073954/http://breakfornews.com/KarekarAveShooting090620.htm|url-status=dead}} Highly graphic amateur videos of the killing rapidly spread virally across the internet after being posted to Facebook and YouTube.{{cite news|publisher=YouTube|title=Basij shots to a young woman in Tehran's Saturday June 20th protests|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=185vPe_gROA |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211220/185vPe_gROA |archive-date=2021-12-20 |url-status=live| access-date = June 20, 2009| date = June 20, 2009}}{{cbignore}}

On 20 June – a day after Khamenei had warned of a brutal reaction if unrest continued – the Tehran ambulance service's internal radio system confirmed that at least 47 people had died, many from gunshot wounds.

[http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/27/iran-tehran-ayotollah-khamenei-protests Iranians' green revolution refuses to wither and die]

On Saturday night, the Iranian state-run news agency IRINN said an attacker had been killed earlier in the day outside Tehran at the entrance to the mausoleum that holds the body of former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. The agency said the man "carrying the bomb" was killed, and there were no other casualties. Press TV was reporting that the bomber was the sole fatality and that three other people were wounded at the shrine to Khomeini.[http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/20/iran.election/index.html Chaos prevails as protesters, police clash in Iranian capital], CNN 21-06-2009 These claims have not been confirmed.

In a statement posted on the website of his Kalemeh newspaper, Mousavi repeated his demand for the elections results to be annulled, and charged that the fraud could destroy the country's republicanism.[http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/06/2009620184151643728.html Police crack down on Iran protests], Al Jazeera 21-06-2009 An ally of Mousavi reported that the opposition leader had told his supporters that he was ready for martyrdom{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSHAF058781 |title=Iran's Mousavi says ready for martyrdom-witness |publisher=Reuters |date=2009-02-09 |access-date=2009-06-20}} and had called for a general strike.{{cite news|title=Mussawi fordert Irans regime heraus|url=http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,631609,00.html|date=June 20, 2009|publisher=Der Spiegel|access-date=June 20, 2009}} Speaker of the Parliament (Majlis) Ali Larijani declared that a significant number of people believed the official election results to be fraudulent.{{cite news|url=http://www.khabaronline.ir/news-11125.aspx|title=مسئولان به درخواست‌کنندگان تجمعات اجازه بدهند|publisher=Khabar online|access-date=June 21, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090622201020/http://www.khabaronline.ir/news-11125.aspx|archive-date=June 22, 2009}}

State television quoted a council spokesman as saying that the Guardian Council had expressed its readiness to "randomly" recount up to 10 per cent of the ballots.

Worldwide solidarity protests took place in New York City, Los Angeles, at the gates of the White House,[https://web.archive.org/web/20090629184403/http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h0idGjtItI7TULclixzz8fKlagcA Thousands rally to support reform demos in Iran], AFP 20-06-2009 outside of Paris and in Brussels.[https://web.archive.org/web/20110311080833/http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gRpO_tqRaYfcIcQGqfzPKTNhL1jg Pro-Iran protests held in US cities], AFP 20-06-2009 US-based human rights group Human Rights Watch and US President Barack Obama both issued statements urging the Iranian government to end violence against protesters.[https://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE55J1QP20090620 Western rights group calls on Iran to end crackdown], Reuters 20-06-2009

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki rebuked Britain, France and Germany for raising questions about reports of voting irregularities. Mottaki charged France with taking "treacherous and unjust approaches," and accused Britain of flying intelligence agents into Iran before the election to interfere with the vote. The election, he insisted, was a "very transparent competition." British Foreign Secretary David Miliband categorically denied the charge against his country, adding: "This can only damage Iran's standing in the eyes of the world."[https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090621/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_election In Tehran, an eerie calm as death toll jumps to 19], Associated Press (reprinted in Yahoo! News 21-06-2009)

An Iranian official at the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance announced the expulsion of BBC Tehran correspondent Jon Leyne but said the BBC office in Tehran would remain open. The semi-official Fars News Agency, which said Leyne must leave within 24 hours, explained that he was accused of "dispatching fabricated news and reports" and "ignoring neutrality in news," as well as "supporting rioters and trampling the Iranian nation's rights."Hashem Kalantari and Fredrik Dahl, [https://www.reuters.com/article/newsMaps/idUSTRE55K15S20090621 Iran expels BBC correspondent: official], Reuters 21-06-2009 Furthermore, Iranian officials detained Iranian-born, Canadian citizen and Newsweek journalist Maziar Bahari.[http://www.newsweek.com/id/203015 Newsweek Reporter Detained.] Newsweek. Retrieved 21 June 2009. Campaign group Reporters Without Borders says 23 local journalists and bloggers have been arrested over the past week.

While the streets have generally been quiet in Tehran, the daughter of Hashemi Rafsanjani and four other relatives have reportedly been jailed. Security forces have labelled protesters as "terrorists" and demonstrators condemned the harsh tactics of government-backed militias. Officials have reiterated that they are prepared to use force against protesters. Reuters reported that Iran Police Chief Ismail Ahmadi Moghaddam told opposition leader Mousavi that "bandits are acting in the shadow of the illegal atmosphere created by you."{{cite news|title=Iran calms, but daughter of top Iranian cleric reportedly arrested|url=https://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iran-arrests22-2009jun22,0,2269803.story|access-date=June 21, 2009 | work=Los Angeles Times | first1=Jeffrey | last1=Fleishman | first2=Ramin | last2=Mostaghim | date=June 22, 2009}}{{cite news|title=Iran clerics criticize leadership over poll unrest|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE55F54520090621|access-date=June 21, 2009 | work=Reuters | date=June 21, 2009}}

The Guardian Council, the body in charge of supervising and certifying the elections in Iran, declared the incumbent President Ahmadinejad the winner after dismissing the vote challenges, according to a front-page report on CNN.com. The report said that Press TV, an Iranian state-owned television network in the nation announced the decision via a spokesperson for the group. They said that while they agreed that in up to 50 cities votes were higher than those eligible to vote, but that it was not enough to result in anything beyond further investigations.{{Cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/21/iran.election/index.html|title=Iran media: Council rejects claims of voting irregularities - CNN.com}}

Speaking at a news conference on Monday, foreign ministry spokesman Hassan Qashqavi accused Western governments of explicitly backing violent protests aimed at undermining the stability of Iran's Islamic Republic. He said the West was acting in an "anti-democratic" manner, instead of praising Iran's commitment to democracy and stressing once again that the results of the presidential election were unimpeachable. Iran has strongly criticised the US and UK governments in recent days, and Mr Qashqavi reserved special scorn for the BBC and for the Voice of America network, which he called "government channels". He spoke as Tehran remained tense but quiet amid heavy security aimed at preventing new protests against the result of Iran's presidential election. Mr Mousavi has told his supporters, who have taken to the streets in their tens of thousands for more than a week, to continue their protests but not to put their lives in danger.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8112176.stm|title=West 'seeks Iran disintegration'|date=2009-06-22|publisher=BBC News|access-date=2009-06-29}}

The Guardian's live blog reported that at approximately 1:30 pm, General Ali Fazli, the newly appointed commander of the Revolutionary Guards in Tehran province, has been arrested for refusing to carry Khamenei's order to use force against demonstrators.[https://www.theguardian.com/news/blog/2009/jun/22/iran-ayatollah-ali-khamenei Iran in crisis: live]. The Guardian. Retrieved 22 June 2009.

At 4:30 pm Tehran time, Iran's ambassador to London was summoned to the Foreign Office and told that Khamenei's remarks were unacceptable. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown later condemned the "repression" and "brutality" used against the protesters. At approximately the same time the British Embassy in Tehran announced they were evacuating the families of embassy staff members and issued a travel advisory against visiting Iran. The Foreign Office noted that "further violence is possible," but said it did not believe it was necessary for British nationals already in Iran to leave the country.[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/jun/22/iran-embassy-staff-families-evacuated Britain evacuates families of embassy staff in Iran] The Guardian Published 22 June 2009 17.07 BST. Retrieved 22 June 2009.

According to the BBC, 1,000 protesters gathered at Haft-e Tir Square in defiance of a warning by the Revolutionary Guard that they would crack down hard on additional protests. Riot police fired tear gas to disperse the crowd.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8112812.stm|title= Police break up new Tehran rally|date=2009-06-22|publisher=BBC News|access-date=2009-06-29}}

According to social networking sites such as Twitter and online newspapers such as The Huffington Post, many Iranians have avoided the streets in fear of combat with the Basij.{{Citation needed|date=July 2009}} Unconfirmed reports of moderate-sized gatherings were later proven by photography and video.{{Citation needed|date=July 2009}}

U.S. President Obama condemned the use of violence in Iran{{cite web |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna31507917 |title=Obama ratchets up language on Iran violence|date=23 June 2009|work=NBC News|access-date=26 November 2009}} and made a reference to Neda who was shot to death during a rally in Tehran by an unknown Basij sniper. It was also reported by the Iranian-government funded news service Press TV that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad would be sworn in by the Parliament of Iran either in late July or early August.{{citation needed|date=August 2021}}

Iranians continued to gather in groups of several hundred, while Basij militants used tear gas to disperse protesters.{{Citation needed|date=July 2009}} The Iranian government stated that it would expel British diplomats for "unconventional behaviour."{{Citation needed|date=July 2009}}

The Guardian reported that at least four Iranian players from the national soccer team who wore green armbands during the fourth round World Cup qualifying match in Seoul received "life bans".{{Cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/jun/23/iran-football-protest-ban| title=Iran bans election protest footballers| first=Robert| last=Tait| date=June 23, 2009| access-date=July 14, 2009 | work=The Guardian | location=London}} The New York Times later reported that FIFA had asked the players to remove the armbands at halftime because the governing body prohibits any expressions that can be interpreted as political. Afshin Ghotbi, the coach of the team at the time, stated "The stories on the players are false and rumors, The [Iranian Football Federation] has not taken any official stand on this issue. We only saw the story in the international media."{{cite news| url=http://goal.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/26/iran-did-not-suspend-players-coach-says/| title=Iran Did Not Suspend Players, Coach Says| date=June 26, 2009| first=Jack| last=Bell| access-date=July 14, 2009 | work=The New York Times}}{{Cite news| title=FIFA To Investigate Iran Over Alleged Player 'Punishment'| url=https://sports.yahoo.com/sow/news?slug=goal_fifa_to_investigate&prov=goal&type=lgns| date=June 26, 2009| first=Mike| last=Maguire| publisher=GOAL.com| access-date=July 14, 2009}} Furthermore, the claim that they soccer players wore wristbands "in support of Mousavi" was manufactured by the Western media, without recognizing that green was part of the official uniform of the team (as well as the flag) and the same players also had green shirt collars and green designs on their shirt and socks, as evident in the photographs of the players.

The people of Kurdistan province started a protest against the treatment of protesters in Tehran, with its starting point in the city of Saqqez. Protests consisted of rallies and business strikes in this area.{{cite web|script-title=fa:آغازاعتصاب عمومی در کردستان |language=fa| url=http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,4418070,00.html}}{{Unreliable source?|date=July 2009}}{{cite web|url=http://www.rawanews.com/details.aspx?=News&ID=505&Babat=1|script-title=fa:مانگرتنه‌كه‌ سه‌راسه‌ریه‌كه‌ی كوردستان له‌ ده‌روازه‌ی سه‌قزه‌وه‌ ده‌ستی پێكرد|date=2009-06-23|publisher=Rawa News|language=fa|access-date=2009-06-29}}{{Unreliable source?|date=July 2009}}

Former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami reportedly made a call for peaceful mass stand-ins in bazaars across Iran, with the aim of disrupting commerce while avoiding the violent police crackdowns which have accompanied the more overt protests and riots.{{cite web|url=http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield/bazaar-comrades|title=To the Bazaar, Comrades!|access-date=2009-06-29}}

A caller into the CNN newsroom who is a female Iranian citizen claimed that in Baharestan Square, Basij forces shot bullets into the crowd.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02qY9K2iOqA |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211220/02qY9K2iOqA |archive-date=2021-12-20 |url-status=live|title=Broadcast Yourself |publisher=YouTube |date=2009-06-24 |access-date=2010-03-30}}{{cbignore}} She also claimed that students and old men alike were being beaten by these guards. In addition, it was believed that these Basij guards did not speak Persian because they did not understand nor did they respond to the cries from the protesters. She reported that these Basij militia-men came out of a local mosque by the hundreds to violently attack protesters.

On this day numerous violent confrontations with the Basij were reported. It seems as if the violence has started again in Tehran, but again, as of this date, these reports are confirmed with a few photos and videos.

There were also reports of protesters at the Iranian Parliament building coming under sniper fire from Basiji. While Wednesday's protests were relatively small in terms of the numbers of people involved, they are said to have been some of the bloodiest during the unrest. Iranian dissidents claim the day's violence raised the death toll to 249 in the last ten days.{{cite web|url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/25/opposition-alters-tactics-to-avoid-protest-deaths/|title=Iran protesters alter tactics to avoid death|date=2009-06-25|publisher=The Washington Times|access-date=2009-06-29}}

In what has been interpreted as a sign of divisions within the Iranian government, it was reported that 185 of the 290 Iranian Members of Parliament invited to attend Ahmadinejad's Wednesday night victory celebration rejected their invitations.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8118139.stm|title= MPs 'snub' Ahmadinejad poll party|date=2009-06-25|publisher=BBC News|access-date=2009-06-29}}

Mirhossein Mousavi remained defiant, denouncing the election as an "evil conspiracy," and refusing to "withdraw [his protests] for even one moment."{{cite web|url=http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/06/mousavis-graceful-resistance.html|title=Mousavi's Graceful Resistance|date=2009-06-25|publisher=Andrew Sullivan - The Atlantic|access-date=2009-06-29}}

Compared to the earlier violence, June 25 was the calmest day that Tehran had seen in nearly two weeks. A source for The Guardian reported that this was likely due, at least in part, to the national university entrance exams being conducted on that day, in which 1.5 million young Iranians participated.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/blog/2009/jun/25/iran-crisis|title=Iran crisis: live|work=The Guardian|access-date=2009-06-29 | location=London | first=Daniel | last=Nasaw | date=June 25, 2009}}

Another opposition candidate, Mahdi Karroubi, postponed a vigil of mourning for the victims scheduled for June 25, pushing the date back at least a week. According to Karroubi's website, the memorial service was delayed because the authorities had not granted the organizers permission to hold the rally.{{cite news|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mousavi-faces-heat-but-vows-not-to-crack/|title=Mousavi Faces Heat, But Vows Not To Crack|date=2009-06-25|publisher=CBS News|access-date=2009-06-29}}

Despite the relative quiet, there were still a few incidents. A group of mourners attempted to visit the grave of Neda Agha Soltan, but were turned away by riot police. Those who refused the order to disperse or were seen carrying green signs were arrested. Clashes were also reported in and around Enghelab square, a site of previous violence. Protesters were said to have come from two sides and tried to drive the police from the square. Youths reportedly threw stones at blockades and set a bus on fire, and gunfire was reported in the area.{{cite web|url=http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/06/livetweeting-the-revolution-day-10.html|title=Live-Tweeting The Revolution: Week 2|date=2009-06-28|publisher=The Atlantic|access-date=2009-06-29}}

The day also saw the releases of a number of prominent Iranians who had been arrested for their part in the opposition. According to Human Rights Watch, sixty-six of the seventy Iranian professors arrested the previous night were released from jail. Also freed were Alireza Beheshti, editor-in-chief of the pro-Mousavi newspaper Kalameh, and a photographer from the citizen journalist organization Demotix.

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On 26 June about 150 people gathered outside the Iranian embassy in Stockholm, Sweden, to protest against the Islamic republic regime.{{Cite news |last=Nordström |first=Louise |title=Protesters break into Iranian embassy in Sweden |newspaper=Associated Press |location=Stockholm |date=26 June 2009 |url=https://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j9ibO-wUz8OHIaKAVt5W19tgGHMgD992GQ380 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20090716063816/http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j9ibO-wUz8OHIaKAVt5W19tgGHMgD992GQ380 |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 16, 2009 |access-date=2009-06-26 }} Some of the protesters managed to enter the embassy building, where they engaged in fighting with the embassy's personnel. According to the police, one member of the embassy staff was injured in the clashes. In addition, a few of the protesters were injured according to the organizers. The police later managed to evict the demonstrators from the building and arrested one person.

Ayatollah Ahmed Khatami, a senior cleric of the Islamic republic called for pro-democracy protest leaders to be punished "without mercy" including execution for some. Khatami stated that "anyone who takes up arms to fight with the people, they are worthy of execution," and "those who disturbed the peace and destroyed public property were 'at war with God'" and "should be 'dealt with without mercy'".{{Cite news |title=Call to execute Iran protest chiefs |newspaper=Press Association |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/feedarticle/8579273 |date=June 26, 2009 | location=London | access-date=March 28, 2010 }}

People across the world released green balloons in what would be called "Balloon Day" in support of the protesters.{{cite news|url=http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/26/latest-updates-on-irans-disputed-election-7/?pagemode=print|title=June 26: Updates on Iran's Disputed Election|work=The New York Times|access-date=7 November 2009 | first=Robert | last=Mackey | date=June 26, 2009}}{{cite news|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/26/iran-uprising-live-bloggi_n_221270.html|title=Iran Uprising Live-Blogging (Friday June 26)|work=The Huffington Post|access-date=7 November 2009|first=Nico|last=Pitney|author-link=Nico Pitney|date=June 26, 2009}}

Mousavi instructed via his Facebook page:

: "Ok, now all the world are going to show their supports to Iranians... This Friday, We all are going to send GREEN BALLOONS to the sky to show that now ALL PEOPLE OF THE WORLD ARE IRANIAN. On 9/11 everybody was American, NOW THE WORLD IS IRANIAN."{{cite web|url=http://www.starboardbroadside.com/2009/06/tomorrow-is-green-balloon-day.html|title=Tomorrow is Green Balloon Day|access-date=7 November 2009}}{{Dead link|date=January 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

According to Human Rights Watch, Basijis carried out nighttime raids, destroying property and beating citizens, in attempts to stop the rooftop protest calls of "Allahu akbar."{{cite web|url=http://moriab.blogspot.com/2009/06/for-immediate-release-iran-night-raids.html |title=Iran Watch Canada |publisher=Moriab.blogspot.com |date=2009-06-27 |access-date=2010-03-30}}

At Tehran University, students held a small, candlelight vigil in memory of those killed in the two weeks of unrest. The vigil apparently was peaceful and proceeded without incident.{{cite news|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/27/iran-uprising-live-bloggi_n_221809.html |title=Iran Uprising Live-Blogging (Saturday June 27) |publisher=Huffingtonpost.com |date= June 27, 2009|access-date=2010-03-30 |first=Nico |last=Pitney}}

There were mourning at the Behesht-e Zahra Cemetery at Neda Agha-Soltan's grave site.{{cite web|author=27 juni 2009 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMn4_GaVdRo |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211220/DMn4_GaVdRo |archive-date=2021-12-20 |url-status=live|title=families go to Behesht Zahra for Martyres and NEDA | date=27 June 2009 |publisher=YouTube |access-date=2010-03-30}}{{cbignore}}

Responding to Mir Hossein Mousavi's appeal, Iranian government legally approved a Sunday, June 28, 2009, (or Tir 7th 1388 Anno Persico) peaceful prayer gathering at 6{{nbsp}}pm mourning those killed during the 2009 post-election clashes at the Qoba Mosque on Ghoba Alley{{cite web|url=http://wikimapia.org/1767515/fa/ghoba-street |title=ghoba street تهران |publisher=Wikimapia.org |access-date=2010-03-30}} (North of Hosseinie Ershad Mosque on Doktor Ali-ye Shariati) in Tehran. Diplomats from Muslim and Arab countries may attend. The government promised not to hurt the peaceful mourners present.

Snipers and intelligence officers are seen on the roofs near Ghoba, a unit of Anti-Riot Police warned people to leave, military helicopters hovering in the sky.

Thousands of people are gathered around the Ghoba-Shariati neighbourhood.

An estimated 5,000 protesters marched slowly and silently through Tehran Sunday. The government was reportedly allowing demonstrations.

The large crowd shouted "Ya Hussein" in a YouTube footage. A YouTube footage shows that Mehdi Karroubi entered the crowd at the Ghoba Mosque.{{cite web|author=28 juni 2009 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgUvDmcwmWU |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211220/rgUvDmcwmWU |archive-date=2021-12-20 |url-status=live|title=حضور کروبی در اعتراضات مردمی روبه روی مسجد قبا |publisher=YouTube |date=2009-06-26 |access-date=2010-03-30}}{{cbignore}} One witness reported at 8:30{{nbsp}}pm that Mohammad Khatami and Mir Hossein Mousavi are reportedly seen earlier at the Mosque. However, another witness said that Alireza Beheshti, son of Mohammad Beheshti told the crowd that Mousavi was prevented from coming. Faezeh Hashemi was seen with people that ringed around the banner outside of the Mosque door. The slogans were: "Salam bar Beheshti, Dorood bar Mousavi." Mostafa Malekian stood in the Ghoba alley with the crowd and sported victory signs.{{cite web|url=http://parsine.com/pages/?cid=8684 |access-date=June 28, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090719003416/http://parsine.com/pages/?cid=8684 |archive-date=July 19, 2009 |title=عکس: حضور مصطفی ملکیان در تجمع حامیان میرحسین در مسجد قبا }} Reza Attaran also joined the crowd, wearing a green T-shirt.{{cite web|author=28 juni 2009 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNvUGCIRZ_4 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211220/rNvUGCIRZ_4 |archive-date=2021-12-20 |url-status=live|title=Reza Attaran Popular TV & Cinema Actor & Director in ghoba رضا عطاران مسجد قبا | date=28 June 2009 |publisher=YouTube |access-date=2010-03-30}}{{cbignore}} Also attending the gathering was Hojjat al-Islam Hadi Ghaffari.

Because the Shariati Street entrance of Ghoba Alley and the other end were both blocked by barriers, about 2000 mourners packed in the alley, under the surveillance of sharpshooters and heavy police presence, especially those fully deployed along Shariati Street. A witness reported that police used tear gas to disperse the people at the northern end of the Ghoba Alley.

There are Facebook posters who claimed to have attended the Ghoba gathering who disputed that there were serious clashes, claiming that the exit towards the United Nations office (which is at the northern end of Ghoba Alley) was peaceful and free of tear-gassing or clashes. This claim, along with those of serious clashes, cannot be verified.

All YouTube postings that shows Ghoba setting are peaceful so far, including one with the crowd surrounding Alireza Beheshti, who spoke via a loudspeaker, and was watched by a police officer behind. Beheshti conveyed to the crowd a message delivered by Mousavi over the phone. On the same day, there are new YouTube postings of some street (allegedly on Shariati Street leading to Ghoba Alley) marches with "Marg bar diktator" (death to dictator) shouted in unison, and some with smouldering objects and gunshots dispersing rioters. But these were clearly not shot at the narrow alley of Ghoba, and not necessarily on Sunday the 28th. The safety in the surrounding of a historical mosque, coinciding with an important memorial date in the Islamic Republic seem to have given police forces and the protesters such an uneasy moment of truce and standstill. This matches the pattern throughout centuries of Islamic history in which religiously-sanctioned gatherings became moments of freedom of political expression, and in which political dissents became symbiotic with a community held together by common interpretation of faith, which secular authorities had difficulties in outlawing.{{cite web|author=28 juni 2009 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcvfXKe1y30 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211220/UcvfXKe1y30 |archive-date=2021-12-20 |url-status=live|title=June 28 Iranians rally at Ghoba Mosque (also spelt Qoba) on Shariati Street, Tehran |publisher=YouTube |date=2009-06-28 |access-date=2010-03-30}}{{cbignore}} This has led to some witnesses to urge the Muslims among the Greens to pray silently in large numbers at mosques during prayer hours, especially on Fridays, as a silent protest against the government's prohibition on any gathering.

Despite this, the government's arrest of 8 British embassy employees (with 4 later released) is another indicator of its readiness to intimidate the international community. Khamenei has issued a statement warning "both sides"{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/28/iran.demonstration/index.html |title=Thousands demonstrate silently in Tehran |publisher=CNN.com |date= June 28, 2009|access-date=2010-03-30}} not to provoke each other, hinting that further wanton police brutality is perceived by the Supreme Leader, if not by Ahmadinejad's faction, to be costly for the regime's shaky rule.

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The Sunday June 28 large gathering outside the Qoba Mosque in Tehran. And YouTube footage of the gathering outside Ghoba:{{cite web|author=28 juni 2009 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v-OOpUbkm8 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211220/5v-OOpUbkm8 |archive-date=2021-12-20 |url-status=live|title=مسجد قبا-شریعتی-هفتم تیر 88 | date=28 June 2009 |publisher=YouTube |access-date=2010-03-30}}{{cbignore}}

As early as Tehran time 7{{nbsp}}pm, most English mainstream media, including Washington Times and Al Jazeera,{{cite web|url=http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/06/2009628192214829335.html |title=Middle East - Iranian police 'beat protesters' |publisher=Al Jazeera English |date=2009-07-30 |access-date=2010-03-30}} reported "police clashing with 3000 protesters around Ghoba", but cited the lack of verifiable accounts from Tehran due to government press control. Injuries were reported, among them an elderly woman who was allegedly beaten by police. Her beating reportedly enraged nearby protestors, who attacked the police in turnhttps://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/top/all/6501464.html {{Dead link|date=March 2010}}

A Sunday June 28 YouTube posting shows a riot raging in a northern Tehran neighborhood with the Alborz Mountain in the backdrop, which was on an unconfirmed date around sunset. The entire neighborhood was shrouded in smoke. Flame was visible on a street nearby. And the video camera, viewing from a tall building, could record a uniformed armed policeman randomly shooting into the streets.{{cite web|author=28 juni 2009 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EgJwm-IlNQ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211220/0EgJwm-IlNQ |archive-date=2021-12-20 |url-status=live|title=28 June - Tehran - last News | date=28 June 2009 |publisher=YouTube |access-date=2010-03-30}}{{cbignore}}

However, by midnight Tehran time, CNN described the Ghoba protest as "silent", with peaceful end.{{citation needed|date=August 2021}}

In Paris, thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in a show of solidarity with the Iranians.{{cite web|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/sachaqs/sets/72157620539995973/ |title=#IranElection Paris rally - june 28, 2009 - a set on Flickr |publisher=Flickr.com |date=2009-06-28 |access-date=2010-03-30}}

Meanwhile, Egyptian security forces shut down a scheduled solidarity march through the streets of Cairo, planned in honor of Neda Agha Soltan. Egyptian dissidents accused their government of hypocrisy, for having denounced the Iranian regime's repressive actions only days before banning the march.{{cite news|url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2009/06/egypt-marsh-showing-solidarity-with-iranian-martyr-banned.html |title=EGYPT: Police shut down Iran solidarity march | Babylon & Beyond | Los Angeles Times |publisher=Latimesblogs.latimes.com |date=2009-06-29 |access-date=2010-03-30}}

On the floor of the Iranian Parliament, a physical confrontation broke out between MP Pezeshkian, who had urged the regime to show restraint, and hard-line MPs.{{cite web|url=https://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A//www.baztabonline.com/Default%2Cfa-IR%2CBaztabOnline%2CContent%2CNewsDetail%2CKey%2C15345.aspx&hl=en&langpair=auto%7Cen&tbb=1&ie=UTF-8 |title=Google Translate |access-date=2010-03-30}}

Signs of unrest continued today. Motorists in Tehran beeped their horns to signal their support for Mousavi, prompting basiji patrols to slash tires and break windshields. Meanwhile, in response to rumors of a human chain being formed, Tehran police massed at Valieasr Street to stop demonstrators from assembling.{{cite news|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/29/iran-uprising-live-bloggi_n_222087.html |title=Iran Uprising Live-Blogging (Monday June 29) |publisher=Huffingtonpost.com |date=2009-06-30 |access-date=2010-03-30 |first=Nico |last=Pitney}} On this night, the rooftop chants of "Allahu akbar" continued.{{cite news|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/30/iran-uprising-live-bloggi_n_222970.html |title=Iran Uprising Live-Blogging (Tuesday June 30) |publisher=Huffingtonpost.com |date= June 30, 2009|access-date=2010-03-30 |first=Nico |last=Pitney}}

The Guardian Council reaffirmed Ahmadinejad's victory after recounting 10% of the votes. Upon the announcement of this news, protesters once again took to the streets of Tehran, and clashes were reported in the city. Although the police cleared the streets relatively quickly, citizens throughout the capital resumed the shouting of revolutionary slogans from the rooftops.{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/30/world/middleeast/30iran.html | work=The New York Times | title=Iran Council Certifies Ahmadinejad Victory | first=Michael | last=Slackman | date=June 30, 2009 | access-date=March 28, 2010}}

It is reported that dissidents in Tehran, in response to the closing of newspapers, have started writing anti-government graffiti on walls throughout the city.{{cite web|url=http://moriab.blogspot.com/ |title=Iran Watch Canada |publisher=Moriab.blogspot.com |access-date=2010-03-30}}

A crowd of over 2,000 people gathered at a courthouse in Uromieh seeking information about jailed relatives. No protest activity or violence was reported at this gathering.{{cite news| url=http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/30/june-30-latest-updates-on-irans-post-election-turmoil/ | work=The New York Times | first=Rogene | last=Fisher | date=June 30, 2009 | access-date=March 28, 2010 | title=June 30: Latest Updates on Iran's Post-Election Turmoil}}

Many expatriates from Muslim countries expressed that they wish to visit the Behesht-e Zahra Cemetery in peace, or at least as close to the site of Neda Agha-Soltan's first burial site as possible on Saturday-Sunday, July 4–5, the 2-week anniversary of her death, since the martyred woman wasn't given a proper Muslim funeral.

On the date of Ghoba, although some expatriates expressed that they would like to attend the Mosque gathering to show faith to Allah, the Ahmadinejad regime arrested 9 British diplomats as soon as they caught wind that certain Iranian-born British diplomats might be attending. Now most of the British diplomats were released under international pressure.

Recently, because Ahmadinejad has openly insulted the Prophet's two Sahaba,{{cite web|url=http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/07/02/77608.html|title=Ahmadinejad unwelcome in Egypt: lawyer|publisher=Al Arabiya News Network|access-date=August 23, 2009|date=2009-07-02}} he has drawn much anger from the Ikhwan al-Muslimin in Egypt, and much contempt from even Hosni Mubarak. Mubarak pointed out, he or the King of Saudi Arabia would never insult the Shia faith in such a manner.{{Citation needed|date=July 2009}}

Thursday, July 2, thousands of relatives of dead protesters marched towards the Behesht-e Zahra cemetery, where mass graves were set aside for the dead, and where Neda Agha-Soltan is buried. These mourners were reportedly frustrated by the police.{{cite web|author=2 juli 2009 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gik9pHVyzhs |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211220/Gik9pHVyzhs |archive-date=2021-12-20 |url-status=live|title=Tehran July 2 |publisher=YouTube |date=2009-07-01 |access-date=2010-03-30}}{{cbignore}}

Thousands mourn Neda Agha-Soltan at Behesht Cemetery, Tehran. Her grave was strewn with rose petals, and adorned with the slogan "We Are Neda".{{cite web |url=http://www.demotix.com/news/mourning-dead-tehran |title=Mourning the dead in Tehran |publisher=Demotix.com |date=2009-06-30 |access-date=2010-03-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090705104010/http://www.demotix.com/news/mourning-dead-tehran |archive-date=2009-07-05 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web |url=http://www.demotix.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/large_652x488_scaled/photos/99606.jpg |title=We are all Neda |access-date=2009-07-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110709015134/http://www.demotix.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/large_652x488_scaled/photos/99606.jpg |archive-date=2011-07-09 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web | url=http://www.demotix.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/large_652x488_scaled/photos/99605.jpg | title=DemotiX - Global Magazine 2019 | access-date=2009-07-04 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110709015153/http://www.demotix.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/large_652x488_scaled/photos/99605.jpg | archive-date=2011-07-09 | url-status=dead }}{{Cite web | url=http://www.demotix.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/large_652x488_scaled/photos/99602.jpg | title=DemotiX - Global Magazine 2019 | access-date=2009-07-04 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110709015231/http://www.demotix.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/large_652x488_scaled/photos/99602.jpg | archive-date=2011-07-09 | url-status=dead }} New YouTube video surfaced on July 3 of the moment before Neda was shot. Video was filmed on roof top. Even though Khosravi Street was not directly filled with violence, it was certainly not far from the view of bike-riding Basijis. The shot that killed her was not the only shot heard in the video, though the last.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIyLCOSDIlo |title=Broadcast Yourself |publisher=YouTube |access-date=2010-03-30}}{{cbignore}}{{Dead Youtube links|date=February 2022}} It was apparent that the black-veiled woman (apparently Neda) accompanied by the blue-shirted old man (apparently Panahi), was shot by the bike-riding Basijis shooting at the "Marg bar diktator!" shouters, who were not close, but fully within view of the walking woman. This observation is in sharp contrast to the Iranian government's explanation that Neda's shooting was carefully set up by Arash Hejazi. If Neda's death was so carefully set up, the dozens of other violent deaths in Tehran in these few weeks can also be likewise explained, while the police and Basijis were the only people evidently armed with fire weapons, and were caught on films smashing private properties without provocation. It is also contrary to the account that the site of her shooting is entirely out of the range of rioting streets. What this video can not show, is whether there was any armed bike-riders going out of their way from the rioting street behind, to attack the woman at close range.

The Assembly of Teachers and Scientists at the Qom School for Shiite Clerics declared the 2009 election in which Ahmadinejad won "illegitimate".{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/05/world/middleeast/05iran.html | work=The New York Times | title=Clerical Leaders Defy Ayatollah on Iran Election | first1=Michael | last1=Slackman | first2=Nazila | last2=Fathi | date=July 5, 2009 | access-date=May 25, 2010}}

Prominent Iranian lawyer Mohammad Ali Dadkhah was reportedly arrested, along with a number of others, in Tehran on 8 July 2009. He is said to have provided legal representation for some of the hundreds of people arrested following the June 2009 election.{{cite news |date= 2009-07-09|title=Iran police disperse protesters |publisher=BBC News|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8141873.stm|access-date=2009-07-09}}

File:A shot of the demonstration of 18-Tir.JPG

This date, being an anniversary of 18 Tir Massacre, had been predicted to be a day of massive protests in Tehran. Indeed, protests broke out, with about 700 people chanting "Death to dictator!" in front of Tehran University. Other protest, by about 200 people took place at Vali-e Asr Street. Both protests were dispersed by police using batons and tear gas, however protesters managed to regroup in other places again.{{cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB124714734408618155|title=Hundreds Defy Authorities and Protest in Iran|publisher=Wall Street Journal|date=2009-07-09 | first=Farnaz | last=Fassihi}}

Security operations against protests are difficult, as vast areas of Iranian territory were covered with dust storms, including Tehran, where many offices and schools had to be closed.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8139007.stm|title=Iran hit by sandstorm pollution|publisher=BBC News|date=2009-07-07}}

And also several university dormitories (such as the dorms of university of Amirkabir(Polytechnic) of Tehran, a highly ranked university of various types of engineering, were raided by the Basij militiamen, crucially beating the students in their rooms at about 2{{nbsp}}am and demolishing their belongings.

"The demonstrators made a moral point. They told the government in no uncertain terms they are still there and not going away," said an Iranian analyst who witnessed the protests.{{cite news |url=http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25762092-15084,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090715095832/http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25762092-15084,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 15, 2009 |title=Britain offers N-deal as Tehran burns |date=July 11, 2009 |publisher=The Australian }}

Judicial System of Iran handed the body of Sohrab Aarabi to his family. Aarabi, a pro democracy student disappeared nearly a month ago after attending a demonstration in Tehran. His death generated nationwide anger.{{cite web|url=http://zamaaneh.com/news/2009/07/post_9687.html |title=رادیو زمانه | خبر اول | انتخابات | مرگ سهراب اعرابی در تیراندازی بسیج |publisher=Zamaaneh.com |access-date=2010-03-30}}

Ex-prime minister Mousavi visited Sohrab Aarabi's home and showed solidarity with his relatives.[https://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jGSJEAPs_r2T2wxsL5G3t4z-jajQD99EQKP00]{{dead link|date=June 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}

Nearly two million{{cite web |author=Behnegarsoft.com |url=http://www.fararu.com/vdch6xni.23n6qdftt2.html |title=پايگاه خبری تحليلی فرارو - جمعيت حاضر در نماز جمعه تهران چقدر بودند؟ |publisher=Fararu.com |access-date=2010-03-30 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100410122856/http://www.fararu.com/vdch6xni.23n6qdftt2.html |archive-date=2010-04-10 }} people demonstrated in the streets of Tehran and joined the Friday Prayer sermon of Mr Hashemi Rafsanjani.{{cite web|author=Copyright: gooya.com 2009 |url=http://news.gooya.com/politics/archives/2009/07/090860.php |title=gooya news :: politics : استقبال بی‌سابقه مردم تهران از نماز جمعه امروز (همراه با فيلم)، ايلنا |publisher=News.gooya.com |access-date=2010-03-30}} Leading reformist leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi also took part in the gatherings as announced before. Police used tear gas against the crowd. At least 15 people have been arrested by the police. Among the arrested protestors were Shadi Sadr, a prominent Iranian women rights activist and writer.{{Cite web|url=https://zamaaneh.com/news/2009/07/post_9756.html|title=رادیو زمانه | خبر اول | ایران | شادی صدر بازداشت شد|website=zamaaneh.com}} Deutsche Welle described it as the most critical and turbulent Friday prayer in the history of contemporary Iran.{{cite web|url=http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,4496564,00.html?maca=per-rss-per-all-1491-rdf |title=اعتراضی‌ترین نمازجمعه‌ی تاریخ معاصر ایران | • ایران | Deutsche Welle | 17.07.2009 |publisher=Dw-world.de |access-date=2010-03-30}}

Mehdi Karroubi and Abdollah Nouri were attacked and beaten by men in plain-clothes on his way to Friday prayers at Tehran university.{{Cite web|url=https://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jKg82GeI0ieEWIag02QA5W98xbwA|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110316020032/http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jKg82GeI0ieEWIag02QA5W98xbwA|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 16, 2011|title=Iran's Karroubi attacked on way to prayers: website}} A day before, Sajjad Saffar Harandi, the son of ministry of culture of Iran, wrote in his weblog that Mousavi, Karroubi and Khatami will be beaten if they attend the Friday prayers.

In his speech, former president Hashemi Rafsanjani said: "Doubt has been created [about the election results]," he said. "There is a large portion of the wise people who say they have doubts. We need to take action to remove this doubt."{{cite web|url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jul/17/islamic-leader-rafsanjani-rallies-iran-opposition/?feat=home_headlines|title=Iran leader Rafsanjani rallies opposition|work=Washington Times}}

Hard-line cleric Mohammad Yazdi harshly criticized July 17 Friday sermon and stated the legitimacy of leadership in Iran does not come from the nation, rather it comes from God. Such statements has previously theorized by Mohammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdi and his circle.{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/world/middleeast/19iran.html | work=The New York Times | title=Iran's Ex-President Criticized for Comments About Election | first=Robert F. | last=Worth | date=July 19, 2009 | access-date=March 28, 2010}}{{cite web|last=Mokfi |first=Mazyar |url=http://www.rferl.org/content/Irans_Ultraconservatives_May_See_Chance_To_Revive_Wilting_Revolution/1768776.html |title=Iran's Ultraconservatives May See Chance To Revive 'Wilting' Revolution - Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty © 2010 |publisher=Rferl.org |access-date=2010-03-30}}

Several Persian-language news websites reported that, the Iranian army has arrested 36 officers who planned to attend the Friday prayer sermon by former president Hashemi Rafsanjani in their military uniforms as an act of political defiance.{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/jul/19/iran-army-officers-arrested | work=The Guardian | location=London | title=Thirty-six army officers arrested in Iran over protest plan | first=Robert | last=Tait | date=July 19, 2009 | access-date=March 28, 2010}}

On July 18, the deputy of the social and cultural affairs of the Ministry of Interior quoted Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, as "demanding the setting up of legal circumstances for making the prison environment more difficult for professional offenders and hooligans and thugs." He stressed that, "Preparations for creating such an atmosphere must be carried out by the Prisons Organization" (Sarmayeh daily, July 19, 2009).{{Cite web|url=http://ncr-iran.org/content/view/6805/1/|title=Iran: Ahmadinejad demands escalation of suppression of prisoners}}

Thousands of people demonstrated in Shiraz. The event was organized by Mousavi and Karrobi's supporters. In Tehran former president Khatami said that a referendum is the only solution to the crisis. The referendum must be conducted by Expediency Discernment Council of Iran.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/persian/iran/2009/07/090719_bd_ir88_khatami_referendum.shtml |title=BBC فارسی - ايران - خاتمی: همه‌پرسی از مردم تنها راه حل است |date=19 July 2009 |publisher=Bbc.co.uk |access-date=2010-03-30}}

Clashes erupted in the afternoon in Tehran between anti-government protesters seeking to mark a nationalist Iranian anniversary (the beginning of day of Mohammad Mosaddegh's prime ministership) and hordes of baton-wielding plainclothes Basiji militiamen and government security officers filling a central square.{{cite news|last=McManus |first=Doyle |url=https://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iran-protest22-2009jul22,0,3112580.story |title=Articles about Iran - Los Angeles Times |work=Los Angeles Times |access-date=2010-03-30 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090724190036/http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iran-protest22-2009jul22,0,3112580.story |archive-date=July 24, 2009 }} Several prominent members of Iran National Front including Dr. Hossein Mojtahedi were arrested by the security forces in 7 Tir square in Tehran.{{cite web |author=Radio Iran On Air |url=http://www.iranonair.com/articles-%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86+7+%D8%AA%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%9B+%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B2%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B4%D8%AA+%DA%86%D9%86%D8%AF+%D8%AA%D9%86+%D8%A7%D8%B2+%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%B6%D8%A7%DB%8C+%D8%AC%D8%A8%D9%87%D9%87+%D9%85%D9%84%DB%8C+%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86.html |title=میدان 7 تیر؛ بازداشت چند تن از اعضای جبهه ملی ایران | اخبار | Iran On Air :: ایران آن ایر |publisher=Iran On Air |access-date=2010-03-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713054247/http://www.iranonair.com/articles-%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86+7+%D8%AA%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%9B+%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B2%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B4%D8%AA+%DA%86%D9%86%D8%AF+%D8%AA%D9%86+%D8%A7%D8%B2+%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%B6%D8%A7%DB%8C+%D8%AC%D8%A8%D9%87%D9%87+%D9%85%D9%84%DB%8C+%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86.html |archive-date=2011-07-13 |url-status=dead }}

In a new form of protest, activists were urged to turn on lights and domestic appliances that consume large amounts of electricity, such as irons, toasters and microwave ovens at 2055 (1625 GMT) and then back on five minutes later. The resulting surge in demand could possibly cause a power outage and cloak Tehran in darkness, allowing some the chance to protest on the streets.{{cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8161824.stm | title=Arrests at new Iranian protests | publisher=BBC News | date=2009-07-21 | access-date=2009-07-22}}

A three-day-long hunger strike was organized and followed by people in several parts of the world.{{cite web|title=Hamid Dabashi's Official Web Site|url=http://www.hamiddabashi.com/hunger-strike-july-2009.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20090728203322/http://www.hamiddabashi.com/hunger-strike-july-2009.html|archive-date=2009-07-28|url-status=dead|access-date=2009-07-23}}

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One of the largest protests held outside Iran was organized by United For Iran and held in over 100 cities all over the world.{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/07/25/iran.world.protests/index.html#cnnSTCText|title=Global protests over post-election crackdown in Iran|publisher=CNN|access-date= 2009-07-25 | date=July 26, 2009}}

Mousavi, former president Mohammad Khatami, and 67 other reformists wrote and were signatories of an open letter sent to Iran's top clerics saying police have held protesters without charges and that "they have resorted to illegal, immoral and un-Islamic methods to obtain confessions."{{cite news|url=https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090725/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_election_7|title=Iran's opposition turns to top clerics for help|agency=Associated Press|access-date= 2009-07-25}} {{Dead link|date=September 2010|bot=H3llBot}}{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/world/middleeast/26iran.html?em|title=Iran's Opposition Calls Crackdown 'Immoral'|work=New York Times|access-date= 2009-07-26 | first1=Robert F. | last1=Worth | first2=Nazila | last2=Fathi | date=July 26, 2009}}

Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mahdi Karroubi sent a request to the Iranian Interior Ministry to hold a memorial service in Tehran to commemorate the end of the 40-day mourning cycle on 30 July for the people who died on 20 June during the protests, including Neda Agha Soltan.{{cite news|url=https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090726/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_election_14|title=Iran's opposition asks to mourn iconic victim|agency=Associated Press|access-date= 2009-07-26}} {{Dead link|date=September 2010|bot=H3llBot}}

A video was brought out of Iran showing many protestors rallied outside of the Russian Embassy and started chanting "Death to Russia" after hearing reports that Russia welcomed Ahmadinejad's victory and was reportedly assisting Riot Police and the IRGC. Several other protests were held outside of embassies of countries that welcomed the results.{{cite news|url=http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/20/why-death-to-russia-is-the-new-death-to-america-for-irans-opposition/|title=For Iran's Opposition, 'Death to Russia' Is the New 'Death to America'|work=The New York Times|access-date=2009-07-30 | first=Robert | last=Mackey | date=July 20, 2009}}

A spokesman for Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahrudi condones the arrests of the people during the protests. Mir Mousavi argues back later about the situational comments.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8170847.stm|title=Iran judge urges arrests decision |date=July 27, 2009|publisher=BBC News|access-date=July 28, 2009}} The next day, 140 of the protesters during the elections are released from Evin Prison.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8173113.stm|title=Iran 'releases 140 demonstrators'|date=July 28, 2009|publisher=BBC News|access-date=July 28, 2009}}

The Iranian government announced that first set of trials for the detained opposition supporters will begin 1 August. The trials would start with the prosecution of around 20 protesters.{{cite news|url=https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090730/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_election;_ylt=AnD1TmA2l44ZCkZwAkSRlwms0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTMyM2xlbjlvBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMDkwNzMwL21sX2lyYW5fZWxlY3Rpb24EY3BvcwMxBHBvcwMyBHB0A3NlY3Rpb25zX2Nva2UEc2VjA3luX3RvcF9zdG9yeQRzbGsDaXJhbmlhbnBvbGlj|title=Iranian police use force against graveside rally|agency=Associated Press|access-date=2009-07-30|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090802152246/http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090730/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_election|archive-date=2009-08-02}}

Iranian people held peaceful demonstrations all over the country. Hundreds of thousands of people mourn the martyrs of Iranian civil rights movement in cities like Ahvaz, Isfahan, Shiraz, Rasht and Tehran.{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/blogs/babylon-beyond/story/2009-07-31/iran-footage-emerges-from-demonstrations-across-the-country|title=IRAN: Footage emerges from demonstrations across the country|date=July 31, 2009|website=Los Angeles Times}}

July 30 morning 2{{nbsp}}am, Mir Hossein Mousavi's aides sent out invitation for supporters to participate in the July 30th (Thursday Mordad 8th, 1388 Anno Persico) commemoration of the casualties of the protests, namely Neda Agha-Soltan. This day represented the end of 40th-day mourning cycle. The message asks supporters to attend peaceful and solemn ceremony at the Mosallah Mosque of Tehran, the largest mosque in the city,{{cite web|url=http://iranfacts.blogspot.com/2007/05/iranian-experience-4.html |title=neo-resistance: Iranian Experience (4) |publisher=Iranfacts.blogspot.com |date=2007-05-14 |access-date=2010-03-30}} located in the Abbas Abad district. Before the 6{{nbsp}}pm prayer, main activities took place at 4{{nbsp}}pm at the burial sites of the martyrs, namely the Behesht-e Zahra Cemeteries, which Mousavi and Mehdi Karrubi were set to attend. After the service at the mosque, the leaders paid visits to and show solidarity with some families who have lost their members in the violence. This message also ties into Mousavi's earlier message that "religious celebrations are opportunities for the display of the 'Green' movement's creativity."

After arriving to Behesht-e Zahra cemetery, Mousavi was forced by police to go back to his car and leave the site. Basij units were dispatched to halt demonstrations and disperse the crowd. Police forces reportedly used tear-gas against the mourners. Some arrests have been reported by eyewitnesses.{{cite news|url=http://www.rferl.org/content/Iranian_Police_Arrest_Mourners_In_Cemetery_Memorial/1788959.html|title=Iranian Police Arrest Mourners In Cemetery Memorial|date=2009-07-30|publisher=Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty}}

Opposition supporter Mehdi Karroubi attempted to give a speech at the cemetery, but was reported to have been forced to flee the site. Reports also say that several of his aides were beaten and harassed.

Renowned film director Jafar Panahi and his wife and daughter were arrested at the cemetery.{{cite web|author=(AFP) – July 30, 2009 |url=https://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hCiMXWvKwQvIo4JRRP28kB4zLWzQ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090805083301/http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hCiMXWvKwQvIo4JRRP28kB4zLWzQ |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 5, 2009 |title=AFP: Iran 'arrests prominent film director' at cemetery |date=2009-07-30 |access-date=2010-03-30}}

Ali Reza Tavasoli, a 12-year-old, was clubbed to death by the Basij after he became separated from his father on the ground of Behesht-e Zahra on Mordad 8th.{{cite news|url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3757738,00.html|title=Report: Iranian officers beat 12-year old to death|newspaper=Ynetnews|date=5 August 2009|access-date=6 August 2009|last1=Cohen|first1=Dudi}}{{cite news|url=http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,26093533-2703,00.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20121215203002/http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,26093533-2703,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 15, 2012|title=Ahmadinejad's Basiji run a regime of rape, murder to suppress critics|publisher=The Australian|access-date=October 4, 2009|first1=Martin|last1=Fletcher|date=September 19, 2009}} Someone allegedly captured the death on video. The video is available on YouTube here.{{cite web|author=17 juni 2009 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXQqWy1ogOQ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211220/cXQqWy1ogOQ |archive-date=2021-12-20 |url-status=live|title=Video from inside Iran of scene after clashes cause death of 12-year old child |publisher=YouTube |date=2009-06-16 |access-date=2010-03-30}}{{cbignore}}

Mehdi Karroubi wrote a letter to Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani concerning sexual abuse and torture of political activists by Iranian police and Judiciary system.{{cite web|url=http://enduringamerica.com/2009/08/10/iran-the-karroubi-letter-to-rafsanjani-on-abuse-of-detainees/ |title=Iran: The Karroubi Letter to Rafsanjani on Abuse of Detainees |publisher=Enduring America |date=2009-08-10 |access-date=2010-03-30}}

See main: 2009 Iran poll protests trial

The beginning of a series of trials was held. It started with twenty people who were arrested in the protests and would later expand to over one hundred and included prominent reformists, intellectuals and academics. These trials would be protested and condemned by people throughout the world.

Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, formally endorsed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for a second term as president in an official ceremony held to set the stage for the upcoming inauguration on the 5th of August.{{cite web|url=https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090803/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_election |title=Ahmadinejad gets key endorsement as Iran president |access-date=3 August 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090805210518/http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090803/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_election |archive-date=August 5, 2009 }} Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mahdi Karroubi, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Mohammad Khatami boycotted the ceremony.{{cite news|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-ml-iran-election,0,689184.story|title=No kisses from Iran's leader, but words of support for embattled president|publisher=Chicago Tribune|access-date=3 August 2009}}

Reformist Web sites and blogs called for peaceful protests to be held on 5 August during the inauguration of Ahmadinejad.{{cite web|url=http://www.twincities.com/national/ci_12993421?source=rss|title=Iran opposition calls for inauguration protests|date=4 August 2009|access-date=5 August 2009}}{{cite web|url=http://www.bostonherald.com/news/international/middle_east/view.bg?articleid=1189047&srvc=rss|title=Iran's opposition calls for inauguration protests|publisher=Boston Herald|access-date=5 August 2009}}

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was inaugurated for his second term as president of Iran in an official inauguration ceremony in Tehran. Protests were held outside the Parliament during the inauguration. Protesters marched around Vannak Square and Valiasr Street chanting "Death to the Dictator".{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/08/05/iran.ahmadinejad.inauguration/index.html?section=cnn_latest|title=Security tight as Iran's Ahmadinejad sworn in|publisher=CNN|access-date=6 August 2009 | date=August 5, 2009}} Protesters were broken up by security forces with batons and pepper spray, according to witnesses. Opposition leaders, former presidents Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Mohammad Khatami, all of Ahmadinejad's election challengers, Mousavi, Mahdi Karroubi and Mohsen Rezaei and some prominent lawmakers all boycotted the inauguration.{{cite news|url=http://www.sfexaminer.com/world/52524657.html|title=Ahmadinejad sworn in as Iran president amid crisis|agency=Associated Press|access-date=5 August 2009}} {{Dead link|date=September 2010|bot=H3llBot}}

Following Mehdi Karroubi's letter concerning sexual abuse and torture of civilians in Iranian prisons, Ali Larijani, chairman of Iranian parliament dismissed the allegation as 'sheer lies', saying that a 'precise and comprehensive' inquiry found no cases of sexual abuse.{{citation needed|date=August 2021}}

The protest trials resumed. Family members of the defendants and other protesters gathered in front of the court to protest the trials. Riot police attacked the protesters outside the court and detained reformist lawmaker Ali Tajernia's wife.{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2009-08-08-iran-protesters-trial_N.htm?csp=34|title=Iran resumes mass trial of activists, protesters|publisher=USA Today|access-date=August 7, 2009 | date=August 8, 2009}}

Following the banning of Mehdi Karoubi's newspaper for publishing Karroubi's answer to Friday prayer clerics and some issues regarding the death of Taraneh Mousavi, protesters gathered near the newspaper office in Tehran. Witnesses say police dispersed dozens of opposition supporters who shouted anti-government slogans outside the office of the Etemad Melli (National Trust) newspaper. Some demonstrators were reportedly arrested.{{cite web|url=http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-08-17-voa44.cfm|title=Iranian Police Clash With Protesters Over Banned Newspaper|publisher=VOA News|access-date=18 August 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090819061355/http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-08-17-voa44.cfm|archive-date=19 August 2009}}

After the Esteghlal Foolad F.C. football (soccer) game, some protests broke out.{{Citation needed|date=December 2009}}

It was reported that protests were organized near Evin Prison. Workers in Behesht-e Zahra municipal cemetery in Tehran secretly buried 44{{cite news|author=توسط محمد ضرغامی |url=http://www.radiofarda.com/articleprintview/1805648.html |title=[دفن ۴۴ جسد بی‌نام در بهشت زهرا در گرماگرم اعتراض‌ها] - [© 2010تمام حقوق این وب‌سایت بر اساس قانون کپی‌رایت برای رادیو فردا محفوظ است.] |newspaper=رادیو فردا |date=23 August 2009 |publisher=Radiofarda.com |access-date=2010-03-30}} bodies from July 12 to 15 in Plot 302.{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iran-graves23-2009aug23,0,3229813.story |title=Report of secret burials in Iran brings call for inquiry - Los Angeles Times |work=Los Angeles Times |date=2009-08-23 |access-date=2010-03-30 | first=Borzou | last=Daragahi}}

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says he does not believe that groups protesting the presidential election results had foreign backing.{{cite web |url=http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-08-26-voa50.cfm |title=Iran's Khamenei Says No Foreign Backers Behind Protest Leaders | News |publisher=Voice of America |date=2009-08-26 |access-date=2010-03-30 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090827125950/http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-08-26-voa50.cfm |archive-date=2009-08-27 }}

Shajarian's new album Rendan-e Mast (Drunken Libertines) was received warmly by Iranian mass and youth and thousands of its copies was sold in the first day of its release. He was a major supporter of the green movement.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8236031.stm |work=BBC News |title=Iran album strikes web protest note |date=September 4, 2009 |access-date=March 28, 2010 |first=Arash |last=Ahmadi}}

Sadeq Larijani appointed Saeed Mortazavi to the post of deputy prosecutor general of Iran. Mortazavi was prosecutor general of Tehran for more than seven years during which he was involved in murdering and torturing a number of Iranian civilians and activists including those who were arrested during post election unrests.

Detailed information of 72 victims was released by reformists.{{cite web|url=http://www.emruz.info/ShowItem.aspx?ID=23996&p=1 |title=امروز: نوروز منتشر كرد: اسامی و مشخصات دقیق 72 شهید جنبش سبز |publisher=Emruz.info |access-date=2010-03-30}}{{cite news|url=http://www.radiofarda.com/content/F8_LIST_KILLED_PEOPLE_POST_ELECTION_NOROUZ/1814704.html |title=انتشار فهرست ۷۲ نفره کشته‌شدگان حوادث انتخاباتی - © 2010تمام حقوق این وب‌سایت بر اساس قانون کپی‌رایت برای رادیو فردا محفوظ است |newspaper=رادیو فردا |publisher=Radiofarda.com |date=2009-09-04 |access-date=2010-03-30}} For the first time in two decades, Hassan Khomeini announced that a traditional religious event that was planned to be held in Ayatollah Khomeini's cemetery was canceled. Top reformist figures including Mohammad Khatami was scheduled to address the audience.{{Cite web |url=http://www.ilna.ir/newsText.aspx?ID=75252 |title=مراسم شب‌هاي احيا برگزار نمي‌شود |access-date=2009-09-04 | language=fa | trans-title=The revival night ceremony will not be held | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091119073712/http://www.ilna.ir/newsText.aspx?ID=75252 |archive-date=2009-11-19 |url-status=dead }}

Music legend, Mohammad Reza Shajarian released a song he performed in the context of post election protests and crackdown of civil movement by the regime.{{cite web |url=http://shajarianfans.com/post/394.aspx |title=شجریانی‌ها - ویژه: تصنیف جدید استاد شجریان/ زبان آتش |access-date=2009-09-04 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090907030839/http://www.shajarianfans.com/post/394.aspx |archive-date=2009-09-07 }}

Judiciary officials entered Karoubi's office in northern Tehran and told him and others inside to leave, ILNA said, adding documents, discs and other material were seized. "Karoubi's office has been sealed off upon the Tehran prosecutor's order," it quoted Esmail Gerami-Moghaddam, a spokesman for Karoubi's party, as saying. In another incident, Judiciary officials arrested Mousavi's top advisor Alireza Beheshti.{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSDAH842579 |title=Iran shuts reformer Karoubi's office, detains aide |publisher=Reuters |date= September 8, 2009|access-date=2010-03-30}}

People demonstrated in Qom after Yousef Sanei's speech.{{Citation needed|date=December 2009}}

On Quds Day, an annual day of solidarity with the Palestinians, tens of thousands to one half million of protesters{{Cite web|url=http://www.lemonde.fr/asie-pacifique/article/2009/09/19/l-opposition-iranienne-reaffirme-son-existence-lors-de-la-journee-d-al-qods_1242479_3216.html|title=L'opposition iranienne réaffirme son existence lors de la journée d'Al-Qods|author=Marie-Claude Decamps|date=2009-09-18|publisher=Lemonde.fr}}{{Cite web |url=http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=3906861&cl=15644010&ch=4226714&src=news |title=Reuters Video |access-date=2009-09-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071228191052/http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=3906861 |archive-date=2007-12-28 |url-status=dead }} took part in a mass rally despite a warning by Revolutionary Guard against the demonstration of opposition supporters in Friday. Demonstrations took place in several locations in Tehran and other cities including Tabriz, Qom, Esfahan, Mashhad, Shiraz, Rasht, Booshehr, Ahvaz, and Kermanshah. This would be the first major protest since 17 July.

Mir Hossein Mousavi and other opposition leaders called people to participate in a mass protests against tyrants, both Iranian and non Iranian ones. Mousavi suggested the following to be chanted:{{cite web|author=Copyright: gooya.com 2009 |url=http://news.gooya.com/politics/archives/2009/09/093728.php |title=gooya news :: politics : شعار پيشنهادی ميرحسين موسوی برای روز قدس، رسانه سبز |publisher=News.gooya.com |access-date=2010-03-30}}

تفنگت را زمين بگذار

که من بيزارم از ديدار اين خونبار

چه در غزه - چه در لبنان

چه در قدس و چه در ايران

(Put down your gun, because I hate to see that blood-thirsty thing, be it in Gaza, or Lebanon, in Quds or Iran)(based on a poem by Fereydoon Moshiri)

People wearing green accessories also chanted "Neither Gaza nor Lebanon, I sacrifice my life for Iran" and "Torture and rape are not effective any more". "Liar, where is your 63%?" was also shouted. Former president Mohammad Khatami who was among the protesters, was attacked by the son of ultra-conservative Hossein Shariatmadari, and sporadic fights broke out between the protesters and security forces. Tear gas was fired into the crowds, where protesters chanted in support of Mousavi. Both Mousavi and Karroubi attended the rally. As Ahmadinejad himself gave the keynote speech at Tehran University renewing comments about Israel and the Holocaust, tens of thousands chanted "Death to the dictator" in nearby streets. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei banned demonstrations on Quds Day, but despite this, top opposition leaders joined the demonstrations. At least ten people were arrested during the demonstrations.{{cite web|url=https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090918/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran |title=Thousands march in Iran opposition protests |access-date=September 18, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090922213911/http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090918/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran |archive-date=September 22, 2009 }} The demonstrations began peacefully until tear gas was used against the demonstrators. Rocks and bricks were thrown. Several people were injured.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8262273.stm|title=Clashes erupt at Iran mass rally|publisher=BBC|access-date=September 18, 2009 | date=September 18, 2009}}

In its article, Lemonde.fr claim that people's minds have changed, that people are counter-attacking basij to free their friends, and that the government, facing these several months-long protests, is increasingly losing support, while the New York Times noticed the leniency of the police.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/19/world/middleeast/19iran.html?bl|title=Despite Warning, Thousands Rally in Iran|work=The New York Times|date=2009-09-18 | first=Robert F. | last=Worth | access-date=March 28, 2010}}

File:Handala-edit.png, coming and watching Iranian Green Movement, has become a web mascot.{{Cite news|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/shirin-sadeghi/qods-day-protesters-trans_b_291220.html|title=QODS DAY: Protesters Transform Jerusalem Day Into Iran Day|author=Shirin Sadeghi|date=2009-09-18|work=Huffington Post}}]]

Iranian actress Shohreh Aghdashloo wears a green wrist band in support of the reformers at the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards.

Demonstrators from around the world gathered in New York City to protest against Ahmadinejad's speech to world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly.{{cite web|url=http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-09-25-voa8.cfm|title=Demonstrators in New York Protest Against Iranian President Ahmadinejad|publisher=VOA|date=2009-09-28|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090928040606/http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-09-25-voa8.cfm|archive-date=2009-09-28}}{{cite web|url=http://www.globalpost.com/notebook/asia/090923/iranians-protest-new-york-because-they-can|title=Iranians protest in New York ...|publisher=Global Post|date=2009-09-28}}

The Norooz website reported that about 1,000 students demonstrated at Tehran University. They carried green placards, the campaign colour of opposition leader Mir Hossein Musavi in the June election, and called for detained students to be freed and the government to resign. There were also around 50 members of a pro-government Islamic volunteer militia, the Basij, at the scene, shouting slogans against Musavi.{{cite web|url=http://www.rferl.org/content/Website_Cites_Antigovernment_Protest_By_Iran_Students/1838581.html|title=Website Cites Antigovernment Protest By Iran Students |publisher=Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty|date=2009-09-28}} Ahmadinejad had planned to speak at the university but was forced to cancel his visit there due to the large protests.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/03/world/asia/03iran.html|title=Authorities in Iran Arrest 18 Students |work=The New York Times|access-date=6 October 2009 | first=Nazila | last=Fathi | date=October 3, 2009}}

The Tehran derby was watched by about 90,000 spectators and for the sixth straight time ended in a tie. The spectators accused the teams of collusion.{{cite web|url=http://www.payvand.com/news/09/oct/1019.html|title=Esteghlal, Persepolis tie 1-1 in IPL |publisher=Payvand Iran News|date=2009-10-02}} They also chanted "Ya Hossein, Mir Hossein" in support of the opposition candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi. The Slogans could be heard on State TV.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mmPApcjjDA |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211220/7mmPApcjjDA |archive-date=2021-12-20 |url-status=live|title=شعار یا حسین میر حسین تماشاگران |publisher=YouTube.com|date=2009-10-02}}{{cbignore}} Police had previously warned against any political activity, even cutting off cellphone service in the area, and some people were reportedly arrested.

Unrelated to the Tehran derby, 18 students who were part of a pro-democracy movement were arrested in Tehran.

The Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) wrote a letter to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei expressing concern over the handling of the election and the following protests. MESA especially condemned Iranian officials for the university raids and arrest of students.{{cite web|url=http://www.payvand.com/news/09/oct/1086.html|title=MESA Letter Of Protest To Iranian Authorities |access-date=10 October 2009}}

Basij Militia attacked Mehdi Karroubi and injured him when he attended Tehran's press exhibition.{{cite web|author=(AFP) – October 23, 2009 |url=https://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jccoey4CuKeqObpRB9V_w_kT7V-g |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100417123741/http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jccoey4CuKeqObpRB9V_w_kT7V-g |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 17, 2010 |title=AFP: Clashes as Iran opposition leader visits exhibition |date=2009-10-23 |access-date=2010-03-30}}

An Iranian student and math Olympics champion, Mahmoud Vahidnia, criticized supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei directly to his face for the violence and crackdown on protests. This is normally considered a crime to insult the Iranian leader punishable by a prison sentence.{{cite news|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/05/mahmoud-vahidnia-student_n_347823.html|title=Mahmoud Vahidnia, Student, Stuns Iran By Criticizing Supreme Leader|publisher=Huffington Post|access-date=6 November 2009|date=November 5, 2009}}

File:Protests in azad university of qazvin.jpg

In some of the biggest street demonstrations since mid-September, tens of thousands of protesters gathered in Tehran on the 13th of Aban, a state holiday in Iran which commemorates the student takeover of the American Embassy and the ensuing Iranian Hostage Crisis. Basij forces attacked protesters with clubs and teargas. Unconfirmed reports state that the Basij also fired live bullets.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/nov/04/iran-protests-embassy-30th-anniversary|title=Iran protesters hijack 30th anniversary of US embassy seizure|work=The Guardian|access-date=4 November 2009 | location=London | first=Ian | last=Black | date=November 4, 2009}} Protests also took place in Shiraz, Isfahan, Tabriz, Qazvin, Mashad, and Rasht. Reformist candidate Mousavi was banned from leaving his home, however Karroubi, another reformist candidate, briefly joined protests at Haft-e Tir Square, according to the reformist website Mowjcamp, but he was forced to flee when he was roughed up by "agitators".{{cite web|url=http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/11/liveblogging-the-revolution.html|title=Live-Blogging The Revolution: 13 Aban|publisher=The Atlantic|access-date=4 November 2009}} Several people were hospitalized due to injuries inflicted upon them by the Basij at the event and 109 people were arrested according to Iranian authorities.{{Cite web|url=http://www.nguoi-viet.com/absolutenm/anmviewer.asp?a=103672&z=5|title=Cảnh sát Iran đụng độ với thành phần biểu tình chống chính phủ}}

During the official ceremony government supporters set fire to US flags to commemorate the 1979 embassy takeover. The ceremony was televised and, despite Iranian government authorities encouraging people to chant "Death to America," protesters instead chanted "Death to the Dictator".{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/6502277/Iran-protests-opposition-clashes-with-security-forces.html|title=Iran protests: opposition clashes with security forces|publisher=The Telegraph| location=London | first1=Adrian | last1=Blomfield | date=November 4, 2009 | access-date=March 28, 2010}} Protesters also chanted "A green Iran doesn't need nuclear weapons."{{cite news|url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/11/irans-prodemocracy-protesters-to-obama-with-us-or-against-us-what-a-difference-30-years-makes.html|title=Iran's pro-democracy protesters to Obama: With us or against us? What a difference 30 years makes|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=4 November 2009 | date=November 4, 2009}}

During the ceremony Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri called the seizure of the US embassy in 1979 a mistake, saying "The occupation of the American embassy at the start had the support of Iranian revolutionaries and the late Imam Khomeini and I supported it too, but considering the negative repercussions and the high sensitivity which was created among the American people and which still exists, it was not the right thing to do." Several protests were held online on this day as well.{{cite web|url=http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/2009/11/07/iran-online-protest-during-the-30th-anniversary-of-the-us-embassy-seizure/|title=Iran: Online protest during the 30th anniversary of the US embassy seizure|date=7 November 2009|access-date=7 November 2009}}

Former Iranian Vice President Mohammad-Ali Abtahi who was sentenced to six years imprisonment in connection with the June election protests was released on bail. [https://web.archive.org/web/20121104132921/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-11/22/content_12522098.htm (Xinhua)] [https://web.archive.org/web/20091129092248/http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jKFdYEM-BIoe142VJAtBVwwytEaA (AFP)]

{{See also|2009 Ashura Iran anti-government protest|Hosein-Ali Montazeri#Funeral and protests|Death of Seyed Ali Mousavi}}

December 7 (16 of Azar on the Iranian calendar) is Student Day in Iran ({{langx|fa|روز دانشجو}}). It is the anniversary of the murders of three students from the University of Tehran on December 7, 1953 by Iranian police under the Shah's rule.{{cite book|last=Yaghmaian|first=Behzad|title=Social change in Iran: an eyewitness account of dissent, defiance, and new movements for rights|publisher=SUNY Press|year=2002|page=[https://archive.org/details/socialchangeinir00yagh/page/240 240]|isbn=978-0-7914-5211-0|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/socialchangeinir00yagh/page/240}} People across Iran broke out in protests on December 7, 2009 in remembrance of the murder and protests on this day in 1953, as well as the student protests in July 1999. The protests in July 1999 were, at that time, the most widespread public protests to occur in Iran since the Iranian Revolution.Ebadi, Shirin, Iran Awakening, by Shirin Ebadi with Azadeh Moaveni, Random House New York, 2006, p.149 However, the 2009 election protests have surpassed the 1999 protests to become the largest protests in Iran since the Iranian Revolution.

Thousands of university students in Iran turned a student rally into anti-government protests. Security forces and militiamen clashed with thousands of protesters shouting "death to the dictator" outside Tehran University. The night before the protests, rooftop cries of "Allahu akbar" or "God is great" and "death to the dictator" were heard from many parts of Tehran in support of the opposition. The rooftop chants — which were almost every night in the weeks following the election — had not been heard since the November protest.https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091207/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_26 {{Dead link|date=March 2010}}{{cite news|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/12/07/iran.protest.warnings/index.html?eref=edition |title=Iran police clash with protesters - CNN.com |publisher=CNN |date=2009-12-07 |access-date=2010-03-30}} Protests were held at most universities across the country, with the largest at University of Tehran, Amirkabir University, Khajeh Nasir University, Kerman University, Sharif University in Tehran, Azad University, Azad University of Qazvin, and Mashhad University.{{cite web|url=http://www.payvand.com/news/09/dec/1069.html|title=Videos: Iran Students Stage Nationwide Protests |publisher=Payvand|access-date=7 December 2009}} These would be the largest protests in Iran since November 4, 2009. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei blamed the United States and Britain for the protests{{cite web|url=http://www.payvand.com/news/09/dec/1064.html|title=Iran's Supreme Leader Blames West for Student Protests |publisher=Payvand Iran News|access-date=7 December 2009}} At a speech in Mashhad, Former Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani criticized the Iranian government's actions, quoting a verse from the Quran: "A secure society is a society that is pious and not subject to tyranny."{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/12/06/iran.protest.warnings/index.html?section=cnn_latest|title=Iran prepares for Students Day protests|publisher=CNN|access-date=7 December 2009 | date=December 6, 2009}} According to reports, more than 200 people were arrested during the Students' Day protests and many were injured.{{cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB126032215259182881 |title=Iran Protest Continues, Under Siege - WSJ.com |publisher=Online.wsj.com |date=2009-12-09 |access-date=2010-03-30}}

One of the most influential members of the Green Movement, Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, dies. The government have denied any involvement with the senior cleric's death and Montazeri's son has been claimed to have stated his father died of natural causes.{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8423046.stm | work=BBC News | title=Top dissident Iranian cleric dies | date=December 20, 2009 | access-date=March 28, 2010}}{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8433991.stm|title=Iran reformist Mousavi's nephew 'got death threats'|publisher=BBC|access-date=December 29, 2009 | date=December 29, 2009}}

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Hundreds of thousands of people attended the funeral of the Iranian cleric Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri in Qom. He was a major critic of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who died of an illness on December 19.{{cite web|last=Hafezi |first=Parisa |url=https://vancouversun.com/news/Protests+mark+funeral+dissident+Iranian+cleric/2364991/story.html |title=Protests mark funeral of dissident Iranian cleric |publisher=Vancouversun.com |date=2009-12-21 |access-date=2010-03-30}} Hundreds of thousands of protesters wore green in support of the opposition.{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/dec/21/iran-funeral-ayatollah-montazeri-protest | work=The Guardian | location=London | title=Funeral of Iranian cleric Montazeri turns into political protest | first=Robert | last=Tait | date=December 21, 2009 | access-date=March 28, 2010}}

On December 21, 2009, CNN broadcast an interview with a former Basij militiaman, identified only as Seyed (who had fled from Iran), who admitted that the Basij did indeed rig the results of the votes (under the pretext that it was the Supreme Leader's wish for Ahmadinejad to be president, and henceforth God's wish and fulfilling this was a duty for God), by placing votes requested by the disabled and the illiterate for Ahmadinjad, not counting votes for Mousavi at all, confirmed allegations of ballot box stuffing. They were made to attack protesters on the street with various weapons with no mercy and no separation between young and old or men and women. He also confirmed reports that there was torture and rape of both men and women of various ages inside Iran's prisons and the authorities had not only done nothing to prevent this but had encouraged this as well.{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2009/12/20/hilsum.iran.basij.speaks.itn |title=Video - Breaking News Videos from |publisher=CNN.com |access-date=2010-03-30}}

Protests continued in Qom and clashes between security forces and protesters were reported.

A memorial was held in honor of Montazeri in the city of Isfahan. Clashes occurred between Basiji militia and people attending the memorial.

Mohammad Mehdi Heidarian, the president of the Iranian Academy of the Arts, and Reza Moradi Ghiasabadi, a researcher at the academy, resigned from their positions in protest at the firing of pro-reform leader, Mir Hossein Mousavi. Another 30 people threatened to resign in solidarity.{{cite web |author=Updated: Thursday, December 24, 2009 |url=http://televisionwashington.com/floater_article1.aspx?lang=en&t=floater_censoredculture&id=16747 |title=Two members of Iran arts academy resign in protest - WashingtonTV تلویزیون واشنگتن |publisher=Televisionwashington.com |date=2009-12-24 |access-date=2010-03-30 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100102053718/http://televisionwashington.com/floater_article1.aspx?lang=en&t=floater_censoredculture&id=16747 |archive-date=January 2, 2010 }}

The Iranian government reportedly banned any more memorial services for Montazeri except in his birthplace and Qom.

Protests erupted when Basiji militiamen barged into the Jamkaran mosque in Tehran, where reformist Mohammad Khatami was delivering a speech.{{cite news|url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2009/12/iran-video-footage-of-ashura-protests-emerge-online.html |title=IRAN: Reports, video footage from Ashura protests emerge on the Internet | Babylon & Beyond | Los Angeles Times |publisher=Latimesblogs.latimes.com |date=2009-12-27 |access-date=2010-03-30}} Protests and clashes with security police occurred in several different cities in Iran.

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Major protests broke out when hundreds of thousands of opposition supporters protested in Tehran and across the country of Iran.{{cite web|author=Dareini, Ali Akbar|url=https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091227/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran|title=Witnesses: Iran police fire on protesters; 4 dead|publisher=Yahoo! News+access-date=27 December 2009}}"[http://lite.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/HAF751382.htm Iran website says Mousavi nephew killed in clashes]", Reuters AlertNet. Retrieved 27 December 2009. This day was the Day of Ashura, which marks the death of Imam Hussain and is an important day on the Shiite calendar. Police fired upon protesters and used tear gas. State TV reported that 15 people died this day, yet official reports from the Iranian government put the death toll at 8, making this the deadliest day of the protests since June.{{cite news|last=New |first=The |url=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2010611314_iran28.html |title=Nation & World | 10 reportedly killed in Iran protests | Seattle Times Newspaper |publisher=Seattletimes.nwsource.com |date= December 27, 2009|access-date=2010-03-30}} Among those killed was Seyed Ali Mousavi, the nephew of Mir-Hossein Mousavi. At least 300 people were arrested. BBC called the protests "the worst violence since last June's contested presidential elections."{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8432100.stm | work=BBC News | title=Iran protesters in fresh clashes | date=December 28, 2009 | access-date=March 28, 2010}} Witnesses claim that the Basiji militia fired live bullets into the crowd. Although it was reported that many policemen refused to shoot on protesters.{{Cite news|url=https://www.lemonde.fr/proche-orient/article/2009/12/27/plusieurs-morts-au-cours-des-manifestations-a-teheran_1285283_3218.html|title=Au moins huit morts lors des manifestations en Iran|newspaper=Le Monde.fr |date=December 27, 2009|via=Le Monde}} There was claims that some of the Basiji militia were wearing green caps (green being the color of the opposition movement) and refusing to detain the protesters.{{cite web|url=http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/middle-east/091227/iran-riots-ashura-festival |title=Iran | Politics | Riots |publisher=Globalpost.com |date=2009-12-27 |access-date=2010-03-30}} Protesters chanted "This month is a month of blood."{{cite news|url=http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1950176,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091231005150/http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1950176,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 31, 2009|title=On a Holy Day, Protest and Carnage in Tehran|publisher=Time|access-date=27 December 2009 | date=December 28, 2009}} A police depot was seized.{{cite news|url=https://blogs.wsj.com/dispatch/2009/12/27/protesters-capture-tehran-police-depot/|title=Protesters Capture Tehran Police Depot|publisher=wsj.com (The Wall Street Journal) | date=December 27, 2009}}

Anti-government, as well as pro-government demonstrations were reported in Shiraz, where Ayatollah Dastgheyb was said to be hiding in a mosque and being attacked by the Basij militia. In Tehran, Iranian state-owned media reported that tens of thousands of pro-government supporters rallied.

In Europe, protests were held the Iranian embassies in Berlin, Rome, London, and Paris. The European demonstrators were protesting against the violent crackdown on the protests in Iran.{{cite news|url=https://blogs.wsj.com/dispatch/2009/12/28/photos-europeans-protest-at-iranian-embassies/|title=Photos: Europeans Protest at Iranian Embassies|publisher=The Wall Street Journal|access-date=December 28, 2009 | date=December 28, 2009}}

Several leading opposition activists were arrested, including three of Mousavi's top aides, two advisers to the reformist former president Mohammad Khatami, Nooshin Edabi, the sister of Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi (whose Peace Prize had been seized by Iranian authorities earlier in the year),{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8433464.stm|title=Sister of Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi 'arrested in Iran'|publisher=BBC|access-date=29 December 2009 | date=December 29, 2009}} and two other opposition activists, Ebrahim Yazdi, who previously served as foreign minister of Iran, and the human rights campaigner Emadeddin Baghi.

Seyed Ali Mousavi's body was confiscated from his family in an attempt by the government to prevent his funeral from becoming another anti-government demonstration. Iranian government security forces used tear gas to disperse the protesters that gathered outside the hospital where Seyed Ali Mousavi's body was.{{cite news|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6969523.ece|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110903193952/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6969523.ece|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 3, 2011|title=Seven opposition leaders arrested as Mousavi nephew's body is seized|publisher=TimesOnline UK| location=London | first=Martin | last=Fletcher | date=December 29, 2009 | access-date=March 28, 2010}}

US President Barack Obama condemns the violent crackdown on the protesters, and Russia expresses concern at the events, urging restraint.{{cn|date=April 2023}} Other Western countries, including the UK, France, and others condemned the violent crackdown on protesters.

Iran has accused the United States and Britain of orchestrating the violent demonstrations on the 27th. A spokesman for Iran's Foreign Ministry has said the US and UK had "miscalculated" in the governments response to protests that led to more than 1,500 arrests.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/30/world/middleeast/30iran.html|title=Iran Lashes Out at West Over Protests |last=Fathi|first=Nazila|date=December 29, 2009|work=The New York Times}}

{{Main|December 30, 2009 pro-government rally in Iran}}

Pro-government rallies take place in several cities to protest recent anti-government demonstrations.{{cite news|url=https://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gzdSHkZl-Vrcllkzr74NnWrIb7eA|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100125011004/http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gzdSHkZl-Vrcllkzr74NnWrIb7eA|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 25, 2010|title=Iran regime supporters swarm streets|date=December 30, 2009|publisher=AFP}} The New York Times wrote "A witness said many demonstrators on Wednesday were taken to protest sites by dozens of buses and were given free chocolate milk, and The Associated Press said the government had given all civil servants the day off to attend the rallies."{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/31/world/middleeast/31iran.html?_r=1&ref=world|title=In Tehran, Thousands Rally to Back Government|date=December 30, 2009|publisher=NYT | first=Nazila | last=Fathi | access-date=March 28, 2010}} Observers differed on whether the rally was a sign of strength[https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/06/opinion/06leverett.html Another Iranian Revolution? Not Likely] By FLYNT LEVERETT and HILLARY MANN LEVERETT, January 5, 2010 or weakness for the regime.[http://www.tnr.com/article/world/the-state-the-opposition-strong The State of the Opposition is Strong], Abbas Milani, January 8, 2010

Mir Hussein Moussavi's nephew was buried in Behesht-eh Zahra cemetery in Tehran amid tight security in which phones were jammed and plainclothes agents mingled with mourners.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/02/world/middleeast/02iran.html|title=Standoff in Iran Deepens With New Show of Force|first=Michael|last=Slackman|work=The New York Times |date=January 1, 2010|via=NYTimes.com}}

An opposition news portal, Shahrzad News, claims to have in its possession a leaked order by the Supreme National Security Council ordering a jet be put on standby to fly Ali Khamenei and his family to Russia in case of further strengthening of the protests.{{cite news|url=http://www.shahrzadnews.org/index.php?page=2&articleId=2073|title=A jet put on standby to fly Iranian officials|date=December 30, 2009|publisher=Shahrzad News}}

During Friday Prayer services in the capital, Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, a fundamentalist cleric who leads the powerful Guardian Council, called protesters "flagrant examples of the corrupt on Earth" and effectively urged that they be executed as "in the early days of the revolution."

In a public statement released through internet and to media outlets, Mir Hossein Mousavi declares he is ready to be martyred for his cause as hardliner clerics in the regime even call for his and other opposition leaders (including Mehdi Karoubi) execution. Mousavi said on his website: "I am not afraid to die for people's demands. Iran is in serious crisis. Harsh remarks will create internal uprising." As a way out of the crisis, Mousavi has put forward a five-point plan to the Government for political and social reforms. But he says Iran's leaders must accept responsibility for the crisis and stop its crackdown on dissent. He's called for the release of all political prisoners, more transparent election laws, and a recognition of the right to protest and a free press.{{Cite web|url=https://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2009/s2784149.htm|title=Mousavi prepared to die for his cause|date=January 2, 2010|website=www.abc.net.au}}

Huge protest took place in Mashhad University. More than 200 students of the Mashhad Open University in north-eastern Iran had been arrested, opposition websites reported. According to the reports, 210 students supporting the Green Movement had been arrested in the last 48 hours. The reports added that some of the students were also attacked by radical pro-government supporters and that two female students with stab wounds were in a critical condition. Several students gathered in front of a police station in Mashhad, demanding the immediate release of their fellow students and were further planning a sit-in-strike on Saturday at their university.{{Cite web|url=https://earthtimes.org/|title=Earth Times | News and Information about Environmental Issues|website=earthtimes.org}}

Protests were held outside Iran in 28 cities around the world in support of the reform movement.{{cite web|url=http://europenews.dk/en/node/28801 |title=Regime Change in Iran - Rally in Copenhagen | EuropeNews |publisher=Europenews.dk |access-date=2010-03-30}}{{cite web |url=http://united4iran.com/event-calendar/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120730114820/http://united4iran.com/event-calendar/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-07-30 |title=Event Calendar |publisher=United4Iran |access-date=2010-03-30 }}

Iranian Consul General Mohammad Reza Heydari in Oslo, Norway resigned in support of the protesters and urged fellow diplomats to do the same.{{cite web|url=http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2010/01/15/Iranian-diplomat-in-Oslo-quits-in-protest/UPI-56521263614885/|title=Iranian diplomat in Oslo quits in protest|access-date=16 January 2010}} Iran has also warned the opposition not to use cell phones or the internet as the government crackdowns more on the protests. Police chief Gen. Ismail Ahmadi Moghaddam says those "spreading the message of the opposition" will be prosecuted and punished.{{cite web|url=http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/michigan/news.newsmain/article/0/0/1599975/World/Iran.Warns.Against.Cellphone.Protests |title=MICHIGAN: Iran Warns Against Cellphone Protests (2010-01-15) |publisher=Publicbroadcasting.net |date=2010-01-15 |access-date=2010-03-30}}

Iranians around the world demonstrated and commemorated what would have been Neda Agha Soltan's 27th birthday.

Iranians around the world demonstrated after the Islamic Republic executed two political prisoners in Iran.{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8484478.stm | work=BBC News | title=Two activists 'executed in Iran' | date=January 28, 2010 | access-date=March 28, 2010}}

; Early February

Answering to radicals clerics such Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati will to speed up executions, Iran's judiciary chief firmly state his opposition, commenting this will as being against the Sharia and law.{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/01/AR2010020102052.html|title=Iran's judiciary chief refuses to speed executions|author=Ali Akbar Dareini|publisher=Associated Press|date= February 1, 2010 | newspaper=The Washington Post}}{{dead link|date=June 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}

; February 10

The Iranian government banned Gmail.{{cite web |url=http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2010/02/11/youtube-advertises-presence-of-new-iran-protest-clips |title=YouTube Advertises Presence Of New Iran Protest Clips |publisher=WebProNews |date=2010-02-11 |access-date=2010-03-30 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100217034110/http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2010/02/11/youtube-advertises-presence-of-new-iran-protest-clips |archive-date=2010-02-17 }}

; February 11

February 11 being the 31st anniversary of the Shah's regime collapse, the support protest is expected to be doubled by an opposition protest.

In the previous days, governmental forces arrested Khatami's brother as well as his wife, the grand daughter of Ayatollah Khomeini. Willing to slow down uncontrolled email exchanges, they also slowed down internet speed and blocked email services such as Google and Yahoo, while campaigning for a state supported email service.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/12/world/middleeast/12iran.html|title=Violence Reported as Crowds Gather in Tehran|author1=Nazila Fathi |author2=Alan Cowell |date=February 11, 2010|newspaper=The New York Times}}

On 11th, a massive crowd gathered to remember the 1979 revolution. Clashes were also noticed in areas with reformist protests. Police rushed on Karoubi's car, breaking a window, without injuring him.

YouTube places advertisements on their site promoting new videos of the Iranian protests were uploaded to the site.

; February 12

Pietro Masturzo is awarded the World Press Photo for a picture they took of Iranian women shouting on a rooftop during the protests.{{cite web|author=(AFP) – February 12, 2010 |url=https://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ix_rbwpVssW8cLb0UNKZIcUPIHjA |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100216141755/http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ix_rbwpVssW8cLb0UNKZIcUPIHjA |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 16, 2010 |title=AFP: Iran protest picture wins World Press Photo award |date=2010-02-12 |access-date=2010-03-30}}

; February 14

Iran arrested several Baháʼís for their religion, which is banned in Iran despite being originated there, along with opposition leaders, activists and journalists.{{cite web|url=https://www.voanews.com/a/iranian-crackdown-on-bahais-opposition-activists-journalists-continues-84347022/171832.html |title=Iranian Crackdown on Baha'is, Opposition Activists, Journalists Continues | Middle East |publisher=.voanews.com |date=2010-02-14 |access-date=2010-03-30}}

; February 16

The unknown Iranians who filmed the Death of Neda Agha-Soltan were awarded the 2009 George Polk Award for Videography.{{cite web|author=Updated: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 |url=http://www.televisionwashington.com/floater_article1.aspx?lang=en&t=3&id=17675 |title=Video of Iran protest death wins journalism award - WashingtonTV تلویزیون واشنگتن |publisher=Televisionwashington.com |date=2010-02-16 |access-date=2010-03-30}}http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1482116.html {{Dead link|date=March 2010}}

; February 17

Approximately 1,200 Iranians signed a petition against a law that would limit women's rights.{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/18/world/middleeast/18iran.html?em | work=The New York Times | title=Iranians Protest Bill on Rights of Women | first=Nazila | last=Fathi | date=February 18, 2010 | access-date=March 28, 2010}}

; February 18

Mohammed Raza Heydari and his family, Iran's former consul general in Oslo, was granted political asylum in Norway, following threats against him by the Iranian government because he quit his job in protest against the repression and violence which occurred during the election protests.https://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100218/wl_mideast_afp/norwayiranoppositiondiplomacyasylum_20100218131841 {{Dead link|date=March 2010}}

; March 16

Violent clashes were reported between Iranian police and protesters after a massive protest was held throughout Iran during the Chaharshanbe Suri, over 50 protesters were reported to have been detained. {{Citation needed|date=May 2010}}

For months prior, large protests had been planned to take place on June 12, the one-year anniversary of the disputed 2009 Iranian Presidential Election.

; June 10

Two days before the planned demonstrations, former presidential candidates and de facto leaders of the Green Movement, Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi canceled the protests scheduled for Saturday "in order to protect people's lives and property".{{Cite web|url=https://www.rttnews.com/list/general-news.aspx|title=Breaking News, Latest News, Headlines|website=RTTNews}}

Clashes between civilians and police forces broke out in Tehran's Enghelab Square at approximately 2:20 PM after authorities tried to arrest young women for "improper hijab".[http://persian2english.com/?p=11549 Clashes in Enghelab Square Over Improper Hijab, June 10, 2010]. persian2english.com As the women resisted, fellow citizens came to their aid while drivers honked in protest. Four people were arrested after backup police arrived. According to witnesses, the police reacted brutally, beating anyone nearby.{{cite web|url=http://persian2english.com/?p=11549|title=Clashes in Enghelab Square Over Improper Hijab|date=June 10, 2010|publisher=Persian2english.com}}

; June 11

On the day before the anniversary many Iranians reported receiving a threatening text message from the Ministry of Intelligence, stating: "Dear citizens, You have been deceived and foreign media to do their work. If you repeat this action, you will be punished under Islamic law."{{cite web|url=http://enduringamerica.com/2010/06/11/the-latest-from-iran-11-june-waiting-watching-and-wondering/|title=The Latest from Iran (11 June): Waiting, Watching, and Wondering|date=June 11, 2010|publisher=EnduringAmerica.com|author=S. Lucas}}, citing {{cite web|url=http://www.rahesabz.net/story/17160/|title=ارسال پیامک‌های تهدیدآمیز از سوی وزارت اطلاعات|publisher=Rahesabz.net}}

; June 12

Several scattered protests broke out throughout the country on the anniversary of the election, despite warnings from the government and security forces against protesting. However, there were no major widespread protests. Minor sporadic protest took place at Tehran's Azadi Square and at some universities throughout Iran.{{cite news| url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/13/iran-protest-anniversary_n_610394.html | work=Huffington Post | title=Iran Protest Anniversary Passes Quietly | date=June 13, 2010}}{{Cite web | url=http://www.insideofiran.com/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3569:muted-protests-mark-iran-vote-anniversary&catid=42:important-news&Itemid=57 | title=Unknown}}{{Dead link | date=October 2024 | fix-attempted=yes}} Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi both cancelled planned protests fearing violence.[http://www.insideofiran.com/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3535:warning-against-iran-vote-anniversary-protests&catid=42:important-news&Itemid=57 Unknown]{{Dead link|date=October 2024 | fix-attempted=yes}}

; September 2

Pro-government mobs attacked the home of Mahdi Karroubi.[https://web.archive.org/web/20100904200818/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38987040/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa/ NBC News]

; September 11

Hamid Mohseni, the head of Mir Hossein Mousavi's office was arrested by Iranian security forces.{{cite news| url=https://www.foxnews.com/world/security-forces-raid-office-of-irans-main-opposition-leader/ | work=Fox News | title=Security forces raid office of Iran's main opposition leader | date=September 17, 2010}}

; September 12

Hossein Alizadeh, the Charge d'affaires and number 2 diplomat at the Iranian Embassy in Helsinki, Finland, resigned in protest of the Iranian government's hardline stance.{{cite news| url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2010-sep-12-la-fg-iran-diplomat-20100912-story.html | work=Los Angeles Times | title=Iran diplomat in Finland resigns to protest hard-liners at home | date=September 12, 2010 | first=Alexandra | last=Sandels}}

; September 17

Iranian security forces raided the office of Mir Hossein Mousavi.

; December 7

Students protest at Amirkabir University of Technology in Tehran. They are attacked by the basij and the protest is suppressed.{{Cite web |url=http://vodpod.com/watch/5071210-7-december-2010-iran-opposition-protests-amirkabir-university-basij-attacking-students |title=VodPod Video: Iran Opposition Protests Amerkabir University Basij Attacking Students, 07.12.10 |access-date=2011-01-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101212003609/http://vodpod.com/watch/5071210-7-december-2010-iran-opposition-protests-amirkabir-university-basij-attacking-students |archive-date=2010-12-12 |url-status=dead }}

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; February 14

Iran's opposition has called for renewed street protests next week on the back of the wave of demonstrations that have swept across the Middle East. Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, the leaders of the green movement in Iran, have issued a call for what they have described as "a solidarity move to support the protests in two Muslim countries of Egypt and Tunisia" on Monday.{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/feb/08/iran-opposition-green-movement-tehran-protest | location=London | work=The Guardian | title=Iran's opposition green movement calls for renewed street protests | date=February 8, 2011}}

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• [http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/iranian-presidential-election/ Iranian presidential election] on The Lede, news blog of The New York Times
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20090619144332/http://www.reuters.com/news/globalcoverage/iran Reuters: Iran election]
• [https://www.theguardian.com/news/blog/2009/jun/25/iran-crisis Iran crisis: live], live news blog from The Guardian (covers June 12–24)

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