Tehran: Supporters of Mir Hossein Mousavi rallied in the streets of Tehran again on Thursday over the disputed presidential election, answering the opposition leader's call to turn out dressed in black to mourn demonstrators killed in clashes, a witness said.
The protest by opponents of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was in open defiance of the country's supreme leader, who has urged the nation to unite behind the Islamic state. It came a day after tens of thousands marched silently down a main street of the capital, brandishing posters of Mousavi and waving V-for-victory signs, amateur video showed. Some covered their mouths with masks.
International news organisations have been banned from covering the protests over last Friday's election, which the government declared hard-line Ahmadinejad won by a landslide.
Mousavi and his supporters claim the election was rigged and he was the true winner.
On Monday, hundreds of thousands turned out in a huge procession that recalled the scale of protests during the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Seven demonstrators were shot and killed that day by pro-regime militia in the first confirmed deaths during the unrest.