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It's Spreading

By The Daily Dish
Jun 13 2009, 4:02 AM ET

A Farsi-speaking reader writes:

Radio Farda (Radio Free Europe) reported a few minutes ago in Persian:

-- Shiraz: students at the University of Shiraz have taken all of the Ahmadinejad campaign posters and burned them at the dormitory grounds. The students are now clashing with the police.

--Zahedan: students are clashing with police this evening.

--Karaj -- protesters are clashing with police this evening. In each location the police have reacted in a heavy-handed manner.

Video of brutal police beatings in the streets after the jump from the BBC. Disturbing:



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