An update on the recent clashes:
But on Monday afternoon local time, sources in Tehran say protesters gathered at two main squares Haft-e Tir and Ferdowsi, prompting clashes with security forces. They were gathering to remember a young woman killed during fierce clashes on Saturday that left at least 13 dead, by official count.
The protesters who have choked the streets by the hundreds of thousands in the past week are calling for a rerun of the disputed reelection of hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
But the protesters are torn between their desire to challenge an election result they consider a fraud – relying on Article 27 in Iran's Constitution that says peaceful marches "may freely be held" – and their fear of more violent confrontations that won't bring them any closer to their goals.
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