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Demonstrations are planned in more than 200 cities and towns across the country, protesting last month's disputed election. Participants are advised to carry nothing heavier than a rose. Reporting from Tehran and Beirut -- There are no formal organizers and no leader has called on followers to join in. But in cities across Iran, thousands of people are planning to silently march today in unauthorized demonstrations. The demonstrators intend to show their discontent over the reelection last month of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and commemorate the 10th anniversary of a violent confrontation between students and security forces. According to one circular...

Today, everyone is an Iranian "You have powers you never dreamed of. You can do things you never thought you could do. There are no limitations in what you can do except the limitations of your own mind." Darwin P. Kingsley Today is 18 Tir, July 8, 2004. It was exactly five years ago when the brutal and totalitarian regime of the Islamic Republic attacked the student dorm and savagely beat the sleeping students and murdered others. The July 8, 1999 tragedy is a day that will live forever in the minds of all freedom loving people. Today, we are...

Renewed Unity Among Iranian Students Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty William Samii Jul 7, 2004 The fifth anniversary of 18 Tir (8 July) -- the day in 1999 when uniformed police and plainclothes vigilantes attacked a Tehran University dormitory with fatal results -- is looming. That incident in the capital led to fatalities and a week of civil unrest that wracked the country, and calm was restored only after massive arrests and a threat from Islamic Revolution Guards Corps commanders to President Mohammad Khatami that if he did not calm the situation they would take matters into their own hands. Every...