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Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mahdi Karroubi, who lead the protest
movement rejecting the legitimacy of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s
June re-election, said authorities wielding batons even struck women on
their heads. They called such treatment an ugly act that was not even
seen during Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi’s response to the 1979 Islamic
revolution that toppled him.
“I can’t understand why they should treat people like this,”
Karroubi was quoted as saying by several opposition Web sites. “… I
struggled against the Pahlavi regime for 15 years … but there were no
such crackdowns.”
