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>> reporter: good afternoon, dylan. well, the situation has finally calmed down after many, many hours of commotion hoar. two of the british compounds were raided, as you know. one of them where the six british personnel were taken hostage have been released. they were given into the custody of the police, and that premises has been vacated, but the main compound in the downtown tehran had been occupied up until about an hour ago, and it took the tehran police chief to actually physically go into the embassy and convince the basij militia members who had overtaken the embassy and looted it to ...

Toward freedom tower in downtown tehran today. witnesses say uniformed officers and plainclothes pro-government militia rushed crowds chanting "death to the dictator." the dmon stlaitors come on the heels of political up heaval in egypt. prince william has picked their wedding party. prince harry will be the best man, kate's sister will be the maid of honor. there are four briedz maidz and two page boys, all of them under age 11. arizona congresswoman gabrielle giffords is speaking. she's actually answering questions. show's holding her own in conversations apparently. that's what her astr...

>> when do you plan to decide, or are you here to break some news today? >> well, i'd love to give you great news, but frankly we need something -- this country needs something quickly, and i will decide to run one way or the other by june. in iran, one person is dead in clashes between security forces and demonstrators. the demonstrators have been protesting president mahmoud ahmadinejad's government, tens of thousands of them marching down revolution avenue to freedom tower in downtown tehran. uniformed officers and plain-clothed pro-government militia rushed crowds that were chanting deat...

Movement in line with religious and social demands. there we have it, from iran today, totally different attitude from street demonstrations than when they were happening in downtown tehran. what is the impact on a global scene? marco is the director of a strategy project who joins us. what do you think? marco, hosni mubarak does he step aside or not? >> it's time that the process should begin to step aside. i'm not saying step down immediately overnight but he should take the opportunity of the 2011, september 2011 presidential elections as a way to begin a graceful exit over the next eight t...

Lead to weapons of mass 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 ralli...