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Tehran Protests After Ahmadinejad's Confirmation


Just a few hours after President Mahmud Ahmadinejad was officially endorsed on August 3 by Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, for a second term, thousands of people protested in Tehran by honking their cars and chanting "death to the dictator."

Here is a video from Vali Asr Street:



Witnesses told RFE/RL people stopped their cars in the middle of some of the streets in central Tehran honking their car horns in protest:



Vali Asr Street at night:



Rooftop "God is great" chants on August 3:



And here is video of Basijis in Tehran:



-- Golnaz Esfandiari
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