DemocracyNow.org - Iranian protesters returned to the streets on Sunday to mark the deaths of two men killed during demonstrations last week. Police used batons and tear gas to break up the protests. Among those detained were Faezeh Hashemi, daughter of former President Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani.
"On one hand, the Iranian authorities are expressing solidarity with the democratic movement in Tunisia and Egypt and throughout the region," says Columbia University Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University Hamid Dabashi, who was interviewed on Democracy Now! Feb. 21. "Then deny that very principle to their own people."
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