A 'stealth' demonstration in Iran?

CNN:

Iran's government will allow a demonstration at Tehran's Ghoba mosque Sunday, CNN has confirmed.

The gathering is officially meant to honor Mohammad Beheshti, a hero of the 1979 Islamic Revolution who was killed in a bombing on this date in 1981.

The demonstration comes after two weeks of protests against the official results of the June 12 presidential elections, which President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won.

A post on a Web site associated with opposition leader Mir Hossein Moussavi urged people to go to the rally.

"There will be a gathering in 'Ghoba' Mosque and it's legal! Please send this message to everyone you can in Iran," says the post in Farsi and English, on a page which claims to be Moussavi's Facebook site.

CNN has not confirmed the site is run by Moussavi or his associates.

Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Sunday called for an end to street demonstrations. "I advise both sides not to provoke the emotions of the youth, not to stage people against one another," he said in a speech on government-funded Press TV.

"This integrated nation must not be split and a group must not be incited against one another."

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This from a guy who had no problem with unleashing the Basij against the people. What the demonstration demonstrates is how the opposition is able to use the prejudices of the regime against them. That is what the nightly roof top wails of "God is Great" are all about. I think that is what this deominstration will also really be about, a chance to let people know their anger at the regime.

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