Police fire tear gas as new protests flare in Tehran

Police fired tear gas on a crowd of about 200 stone-throwing people as they protested in Tehran over President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's disputed election win, an AFP reporter said.

Police fired tear gas on a crowd of about 200 stone-throwing people as they protested in Tehran over President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's disputed election win, an AFP reporter said.

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Shouting "Death to the dictator!" angry supporters of defeated presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi lobbed stones at policemen who fired back with tear gas to break up the demonstration.