New Video out of Iran: Mousavi supporters clash with Ahmadinejad's Basij Militia.

Iranian riot police have clashed with hundreds of pro-reform protesters in central Tehran and detained dozens, a witness said, in the latest unrest over June's disputed election.

One of the earlier protests against the election result in Iran was held on June 15

The witness said demonstrators were chanting slogans against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the government, including: "Ahmadinejad -- resign, resign" and "Death to dictators".

The Reuters news agency quoted the witness as saying the police beat protesters who had gathered in Tehran's Haft-e Tir square in defiance of a ban on such demonstrations following the election, which the opposition says was rigged in favour of Ahmadinejad.

"Riot police are taking dozens of protesters into their cars and they are taking them away," the witness said.

"There are hundreds of riot police and plainclothes (security forces), beating people who gathered to support (opposition leader Mirhossein) Mousavi."

Defeated reformist presidential candidate Mirhossein Mousavi raises his arms at a demonstration in Tehran, Iran, on June 15.

Tweets posted on Twitter, which cannot be verified, suggested that around 10,000 people were involved in the demonstrations in four main areas of central Tehran: "Vali Asr; 7 Tir; Coledge Sq; Baharestan".

One tweet said: "A young lad with a phone nr Cinema was grabbed by security. Crowd freed him while fighting off teargas attacks.

"As the crowd gathered near the cinema, guards showed force by beating an elderly person, crowd came to rescue."

The clash erupted four days after similar confrontations between police and protesters for the first time in weeks on Friday after former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani declared the Islamic Republic in crisis and said there were doubts about the election result.

The authorities reject opposition charges of vote rigging.

The election stirred the most striking display of internal unrest in Iran, the world's fifth biggest oil exporter, since the 1979 revolution and exposed deep rifts in its ruling elite.

At least 20 people died in the post-election violence. Mousavi and the authorities blame each other for the bloodshed.

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[iranghel]

Thank you CNN for your rapid report. Iranian continue their movement to get rid of islamic regime so they use any event , any anniversary to make demonstrations

[riotgenius]

Go CNN, this video was only available 24 hours on Twittr before you got hold of it! Well done, please keep reporting, Reza, we appreciate your efforts and thank you.

[honkeyssmalls]

long live the islamic repulic of Iran

[babeau]

There is no sound.

[rtpricetag]

@tell2all ... When Mousavi was asked to bring written charges and evidence concerning vote rigging he had claimed having proof, he refused... perhaps the US-Agencies polling Iran 3-weeks before election showing Ahmadinejad would win by 2-to-1 margin had something to do with it.

[rtpricetag]

@bitagoya ... You need to check into secularist Mir Hossein Mousavi, after 1979 as a hardliner was elected Iran Foreign Minister, and here funding and directing terrorists to bomb and kill US soldiers... is that what you call laying ground for Islam... find this in the Qur'an please. I guarantee it will be easier finding proof WTC-terrorists reported by the FBI, most of whom are still alive and believe a mistake has been made.

[rtpricetag]

@msgg49 ....The US-Gov operating secretly in opposition of everything true Americans hold dear, have interfered in politic's of nations all over the world, often overthrowing Democracies (like Iran in 1953) to set up Constitutional dictatorships. It was not long afterward that Kissinger and Nixon in 9-11 (Sept 11, 1973) overthrew the Democracy of Chile in South America.

[rtpricetag]

@babeau ...This sounds like the Zionist Moses Hess, that coined the phrase "Religion is the opium of the poor". I pre4fer devout Jewis to hard-core Zionist's.

[rtpricetag]

@iranghel ...Several US-agencies (Rockefeller Foundation among them) did a polls in Iran 3-weeks before election, as a result projecting Ahmadinejad would win by a 2-to-1 margin... US-Gov and Media are aware of this. Mir Hossein Mousavi is a secular hardliner, elected after 1979 to head Iran Foreign Ministry where he funded and directed terrorists to bomb and kill US soldiers.

[babeau]

Khomeini puts any kind of voluntaristic attempt to form a state consisting of different peoples on the same level with barbaric pagans living in the woods who worship mythologial nonsense. I have not the slightest clue how a living entity is capable of this mental rollercoaster ride and making any deductive reasoning the laughing stock in their local metaphysics chapter.

[babeau]

forfetable, Khomeini himself cared more about Islam than he cared about Iran. and these are his own words when he was asked: Ayatollah, would you be so kind as to tell us how you feel about being back in Iran? Reply: Nothing. I don't feel anything. (Hichi. Hich ehsasi nadaram)

We do not worship Iran, we worship Allah. For patriotism is another name for paganism. I say let this land [Iran] burn. I say let this land go up in smoke, provided Islam emerges triumphant in the rest of the world.