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Destruction. ivan watson joins us with tonight's 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 few hundred supporters of iran's defeated presidential candidates have rallied in the capital tehran...

Described it as, not histructur. there have been allegations of widespread torture. i've met dissidents, journalists who had to flee out of iran because they have been hunted by security forces. the movement has stayed alive. but the fact is the government has a monopoly on the use of force and used it to crush opposition protests in the past. it seems to have done that again today to try to break things up. it also has a monopoly on media in iran, on state media. so even though the opposition leader said we want to try to get to freedom square, the central square where the hundreds of thousan...

Islamabad. thanks so much. so the only pictures are coming from social media sites and that's because cnn did apply for a visa to cover the anniversary events, but that request was denied by iran's government. cnn's ivan watson is on the iran desk here in atlanta monitoring the situation. what can you tell us? >> reporter: iranian state tv had wall-to-wall coverage of this carefully choreographed state demonstration, hundreds of thousands of people attending mahmoud ahmadinejad's speech. this is what state tv had to say about the opposition demonstrators today. take a listen. >> a few hundred ...

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Tehran if needed he also accused the iranian foreign minister of quote lying with eloquence to drive home his points natanya who held up a piece of what he said was an iranian drone shot down in israeli air space iran also denies that it committed america of aggression against israel last week that it sent to drone into our airspace to threaten our people. well. here's a piece of that iranian drone or what's left of it after we shot it down. i brought it here so you can see for yourself mr zarif. do you recognize this. you should be george you can take back with you a message to the tyrants of...