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The Iranian people have again had enough. Protests have erupted across the country in anger at the beating death of a 22-year-old woman detained by morality police for allegedly showing too much hair. Certainly, there is an irony when Western diplomats and journalists don headscarves in deference to Iranian culture, while Iranian women shed theirs, knowing they face detention, torture, and even death for defying the idea that isolated and corrupt octogenarian ayatollahs can define culture and ho...

Lead to weapons of mass destruction. ivan watson joins us with tonights raw politics. ivan? >> hi, anderson. this is the official version of what happened today in downtown tehran. hundreds of thousands of people, flag-waving crowds supporting the government. president mahmoud ahmadinejad giving a speech praising achievements of iran since the 1979 revolution in iran. and then basically here is what the government media had to say about the opposition which was also calling for competing rallies...

Tonights raw politics. >> this is the official version of what happened in downtown tehran. hundreds o thousands of people, flag-waving crowds supporting the president. president mahmoud ahmadinejad giving a speech praising achievements of iran since the 1979 revolution in iran. and then basically here is what the government media had to say about the opposition which was also calling for competing rallies on the same day. >> a few hundred supporters of irans defeated presidential candidates hav...

Destruction. ivan watson joins us with tonights raw politics. ivan? >> hi, anderson. this is the official version of what happened today in downtown tehran. hundreds of thousands of people, flag-waving crowds supporting the government. president mahmoud ahmadinejad giving a speech praising achievements of iran since the 1979 revolution in iran. and then basically here is what the government media had to say about the opposition which was also calling for competing rallies on the same day. >> a f...