Posted on 03/02/2011 6:35:27 PM PST by nuconvert
Opposition websites said security services rounded up protesters in several locations in the capital and were helped by police in plain clothes.
Another 40 people were said to have been detained in the city of Isfahan.
Opposition groups had called for rallies over the reported imprisonment of their leaders - Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi.
The two men had been placed under house arrest several weeks ago as authorities cracked down on protests staged in solidarity with the uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt and elsewhere.
Their families say that on Monday they were taken to prison, although the government denies this.
'Black vans'
Riot police and militia on motorcycles broke up attempts by a number of opposition supporters to protest in various parts of Tehran on Tuesday.
One website said eyewitnesses had reported 30 arrests on Felestin Street alone.
"Masked officers arrested men and women and put them into black vans and continued beating them even after they were put in the van," the Human Rights House of Iran reported.
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Where is Obama?
Where is Obama?
Where is Obama? .................... With Waldo of course.
The anti-American Obamatrons are aligned with the worst of the die hard communist and jihadist radicals.
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