Iran Revolutionary Guards Say They’ll Crush Protests

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said the security forces will crush further protests over the disputed presidential vote, as the country’s elections supervisory body acknowledged some balloting discrepancies.

[efoods]“The saboteurs must stop their actions” or face “the decisive and revolutionary action of the children of the nation in the Revolutionary Guards, the Basij, and other security and military forces, to put an end to the chaos,” the state-run Mehr news agency cited the Revolutionary Guards as saying today in a statement.

Police attacked hundreds of protesters with tear gas and fired shots into the air as they broke up a rally in central Tehran’s Haft-e-Tir square shortly after the Guards’ warning, the Associated Press said.

The 125,000-strong Guards, tasked by Iran’s clerical rulers with protecting the Islamic Revolution, have their own ground, air and sea forces. Club-wielding members of the Basij volunteer militia, which is linked to the Guards, have played a role in suppressing the protests against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s June 12 victory. Opponents say the ballot was rigged.

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This article was posted: Monday, June 22, 2009 at 11:59 am

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