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Tell us about that. and how was that carried out! i w ? >> someone accosted my translator and me on the street and pulled us aside, led us into a car. we were taken to an office in central tehran. i was told it was an intelligence office. im not sure whether that means it was connected to the ministry of intelligence or to some other sort of subagency of the revolutionary guard, which i suspect. but my offense was that on the day of the election, they had confined the foreign media to buses. the...

In algeria and security forces in bahrain used tear gas and rubber bullets to squash plans for a mass gathering there. tear gas was also used in iran to combat tens of thousands of protestors in central tehrans revolution square. jays rosen takes a look. >> reporter: clandestine video of protests across iran. they appeared throughout the day on youtube. it showed protestors death to the dictator and setting up burning barricades in tehran and fleeing tear gas. >> we are calling on the iranian go...

Events in cairo as an islamic awakening similar to the 79 revolution, which is ridiculous. ironically, theyre not allowing protests in their neck of woods. theyre using tear gas in central tehran out there in support of the egyptian protest. opposition leaders have been rounded up. you know, well just rip through the oerz. yemen, important country in the u.s. war on terror. youve got about 2,000 police clashing -- 2,000 people clashing with police in the capital there, the third day of anti-gove...

In algeria and security forces in bahrain used tear gas and rubber bullets to squash plans for a mass gathering there. tear gas was also used in iran to combat tens of thousands of protestors in central tehrans revolution square. jays rosen takes a look. >> reporter: clandestine video of protests across iran. they appeared throughout the day on youtube. it showed protestors death to the dictator and setting up burning barricades in tehran and fleeing tear gas. >> we are calling on the iranian go...

For a regime change in yemen, maybe more freedom in alheria and in the meantime the palestinian prime minister has dissolved his cabinet, though he denies events in the region had anything to do with it. he still did it. and iranian security forces as we told you at the beginning of the show are cracking down on protests in central tehran, firing tear gas to disperse opposition supporters. lots happening around the world today. james rosen is live from the state department. james. >> reporter: g...

And developing now, the unrest in the middle east is being felt in iran. moments ago secretary of state hillary clinton spoke about todays clashes between iranian police and tens of thousands of protesters in central tehran. >> they deserve to have the same rights that they saw being played out in egypt and that are a part of their own birth right, a regime which over the last three weeks has constantly hailed what went on in egypt and now when given the opportunity to afford their people the sa...

Protesters, antigovernment protesters. >> as for the state of the iranian protest movement, today was supposed to be make or break. while turnout was lower in the past supporters say the green demonstrators are not finished. >> green movement once again send a message to the world we are there. we are alive. the government failed to put us down. >> government critics might be alive but maybe just barely. one of those was attacked today was the wife of reform leader-mile-an-hour hussein moussaoui...

Extraordinary political standoffs between countries always hurt the ordinary people who are caught between them. >> in iran, the governments refusal there to cooperate with the west over its nuclear program has triggered some harsh economic sanctions. see how it hits home as abcs david muir takes us inside iran. >> reporter: we went in search of one of the biggest pharmacies in central tehran. having heard life threatening medicine is running out. >> hello. >> reporter: this doctor runs the phar...

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