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Iranian security forces violently suppressed opposition supporters in the city of Isfahan yesterday as tensions increased before nationwide demonstrations planned for this weekend. Two days after massive demonstrations in the holy city of Qom, clashes erupted in Isfahan, Iran’s third city, as thousands of mourners gathered for a memorial service for Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, the opposition’s spiritual leader, who died at the weekend. Opposition websites said riot police and Basij militiamen surrounded the Seyed mosque from early in the morning, and then attacked the mourners with batons, teargas and pepper gas. Many were injured and dozens were arrested,...

Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2003 1:10 p.m. EST Dish It Back to Cyber Protesters Another group is about to endanger national security and interrupt the workings of the White House and Congress by cyber-marching on Washington tomorrow. Moveon.org (whose phone number is 510-524-6100, and whose e-mail addresses are Press@moveon.org, info@moveon.org, info@moveonpac.org, and wboyd@moveon.org, and doug@moveonpac.org, just in case you want to, oh, we don't know, bombard them with phone calls and e-mail), claims to be trying to build public advocacy groups to better represent the "public." But it is really just protesting the "war on Iraq," which, in case anyone has...