The quiet enforced on Tehran's streets by the post-election crackdown was shattered Thursday in dramatic clashes between opposition activists and security forces. Plans had circulated for days on Internet social networking sites calling for demonstrations to be staged to observe the 10th anniversary of the violent suppression of pro-reform protests at Tehran University in 1999. Opposition supporters were told to carry nothing more threatening than a rose. But the event failed to draw the huge crowds that had turned out to protest the June 12 election result, and numerous reports out of Iran suggest that the hundreds of opposition supporters who took to the streets on Thursday were greeted with more brutality by the regime's enforcers.
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The protests will not end. The U.S. is in the precarious position of wanting to make progress with whomever the new administration will be, while trying to make a strong statement for democracy. What should the U.S. response to an admitted inaccurate election be?
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The protests will not end. The U.S. is in the precarious position of wanting to make progress with whomever the new administration will be, while trying to make a strong statement for democracy. What should the U.S. response to an admitted inaccurate election be?
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