

Rocks and debris filled roadways, and black smoke rose above neighborhoods filled with the haze of tear gas, according to witness accounts. Neither on the streets, where protesters called for another march today, nor in the country's political establishment were there many signs that the turbulence over Iran's disputed presidential election would end soon.



State television reported that three people were injured by an "armed terrorist" who tried to enter the shrine of the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. "The terrorist was killed," the news announcer said.


"The Iranian government must understand that the world is watching," he said in the statement. "We call on the Iranian government to stop all violent and unjust actions against its own people. The universal rights to assembly and free speech must be respected, and the United States stands with all who seek to exercise those rights."

A series of peaceful rallies last week captured the imagination of the West but angered Iranian authorities, who have described them as part of a Western plot to foment a "velvet revolution."



"They clubbed me three times," said one man, who described himself as a government employee. "I enjoy it."



"Women break up the rocks and hand them to the men," a gray-haired man told a contingent of young people fighting the militiamen.


"I am sorry . . . I cannot be with you," he told them. "At least I can quench your thirst. You are my children."

Baton strikes


"A couple of strokes from a baton aren't going to stop me," Mojtaba said. "We've been at it for only a week. It will take a year."