Shots kill at least one in Tehran demonstration

Guardian:

Iran's post-election political unrest claimed its first confirmed fatality today when shots were fired at supporters of the defeated presidential candidate, Mir Hossein Mousavi, who had defied an official ban on a mass rally in central Tehran.

Basiji militiamen loyal to the hardline incumbent, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, were said to be responsible for the shooting, which took place as hundreds of thousands of pro-Mousavi demonstrators marched through the city centre to Azadi (Freedom) Square demanding the result of last Friday's election be annulled.

Witnesses saw at least one person dead and several injured.

Precise figures were not available, but some estimates suggested more than half a million people were involved in the protest against the election "theft". Such large-scale protest has not seen in Iran since the 1979 Islamic revolution.

"Mousavi we support you! We will die but regain our votes!" shouted supporters, many wearing the green of the moderate's election campaign.

Unconfirmed reports suggested that up to 12 people had also been killed in confrontations between riot police and students in Tehran and the city of Shiraz.

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I think the Guardian is the only place I have seen the larger unconfirmed number. Killing the demonstrators is a very foolish move. In a martyrdom society, they become instant martyrs of a rigged vote. It also appears that the nature of the rigging made the vote even less credible.