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The Really: Despite warnings crowds gathered in Tehran.

UPDATE: Deadly violence. Reports of beatings, deaths and police actions against protesters.

Up to the minute reporting at The Lede: New York Times.

There is a simple and beautiful poetry to the translations of some of the reports from citizens in Iran using social network clients to get the word out: From The Lede:

One the bloggers we have been following this week, who appears to be writing from inside Iran and has been a reliable source of information on the protests, has started posting updates after a long silence today. Here is the most recent update in English:

Police guard are all the streets of Tehran. Streets full of the population

The same blogger is also writing in Farsi. According to a rough automatic translation from Google Translate, the blogger wrote minutes ago that the police have asked people to disperse, warning that if they do not the Basij paramilitary force may attack them.

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