More reports are beginning to come in about clashes with Iranian Security Forces.
"It was meant to be an event when Iranians unite to honour one of Shia Islam's most revered martyrs. Instead, it turned into a day of bloody carnage that left at least nine dead, many more injured and the country facing a potentially unbridgeable divide and an escalating cycle of violence.
The Shia mourning ceremony of Ashura became the setting for all-out confrontation between Iran's torn political factions when the government unleashed a furious crackdown on pro-opposition protesters that included orders to open fire.
In the most violent clashes since the aftermath of last June's disputed presidential election, security forces fired on demonstrators who had gathered in their thousands in some of Tehran's main thoroughfares. Riot police and plainclothed agents attacked people with batons and iron rods, aiming for the head to exact maximum damage, said witnesses."
Link to Guardian Article
