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Iran Ups Media Crackdown as Reformers Plan Rally

A policeman attacks a man near Tehran's university during weekend protests. Iran's opposition is stepping up its challenge to the Islamic regime as the authorities intensify a crackdown on the media to try to contain the biggest crisis since the 1979 revolution. (AFP)

TEHRAN - Iran's opposition stepped up its challenge to the Islamic regime on Wednesday as the authorities intensified a crackdown on the media to try to contain the biggest crisis since the 1979 revolution.

Defeated presidential challenger Mir Hossein Mousavi and his supporters called for a new round of public demonstrations and laid down the gauntlet over the disputed election that returned Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to power.

Posted in protest, Iran