Ahmadinejad has large lead in Iranian election

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watch out for those puddles, marc

Why? I got you to throw down to walk over them.

[Amby 490]

omg I read the title of this as "Ahmadinejad has large Iranian erection"

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Who are we kidding - that squinty eyed idiot will get in again.

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At one Mousavi office, the police broke up a large crowd of supporters with batons and closed down the building. At another, a group of basijis (pro-regime paramilitaries) took about 100 people hostage before being overpowered by Mousavi supporters.

By Saturday morning, the most often repeated exclamation in Tehran was: "It's not possible!"

Groups of protestors headed to the city's squares and main streets, where they faced regular beatings by police using batons and pepper spray. Eyewitnesses say the police beat a young man to death north of Vanak Square.

At about 5 p.m., two crowds of several hundred people — both Mousavi and Ahmadinejad supporters — gathered in front of the Ministry of the Interior, just off Jahad Square in central Tehran. They were separated by police lines, but chanting back and forth as they had all week. Suddenly, the police charged the Mousavi supporters. There were two ranks of police on motorcycles, two policemen per bike, dressed in body armor that made them look like starship troopers. They charged into the crowd, brandishing billy clubs, followed by police on foot, with clubs and shields.

The police were firm but not brutal. They pushed the crowd, rather than swinging at it. Still, people were knocked down; one woman in a chador was down in the street, screaming in pain as she was dragged toward the sidewalk by her husband.

The Mousavi supporters were pushed down the street several blocks, and into side streets. When the police retreated, they re-gathered, chanting "Death to the Dictator" and "Mousavi, We'll Protect You" and "Iran looks like Palestine" (the last, an apparent reference to the constant scenes of similarly dressed Israeli police dispersing Palestinian rock-throwers).

CNN.COM