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Iranian riot police run towards opposition protesters during clashes in central Tehran December 27, 2009. (REUTERS/Stringer)

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Iranians follow a truck transporting the coffin of dissident cleric Ayatollah Hossein Ali Mintazeri in the Shi'ite holy city of Qom, Iran on December 21, 2009. Large crowds of mourners chanted anti-government slogans during the funeral of Iran's leading dissident cleric Montazeri in the holy city of Qom on Monday, websites reported. (REUTERS/Stringer)

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Pro-reform Iranians hold up photographs and green banners as they attend the funeral ceremony of Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, in the city of Qom, Iran, Monday, Dec. 21, 2009. (AP Photo)

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Two pro-reform Iranian women attend the funeral ceremony of Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, the spiritual father of Iran's reform movement, as they wear green headbands, the symbolic color of Iranian opposition, in the holy city of Qom, 125 km (78 mi) south of the capital Tehran, Iran on Monday, Dec. 21, 2009. Montazeri, who died Sunday at the age of 87, was a key figure in the 1979 Islamic Revolution who later accused his fellow clerical leaders of imposing dictatorship in the name of Islam. (AP Photo)

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Crowds of Iranians attend the funeral ceremony Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri in Qom, Iran on December 21, 2009. (REUTERS/Stringer)

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Female supporters of Iran's regime hold up a portrait of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei (right) and founder of the Islamic Republic Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomenei, as they take to the streets in Tehran on December 30, 2009. (ATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty Images)

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Pro-government Iranian demonstrators gather in a rally at the Enqelab (Revolution) Sq. in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2009. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

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Government supporters hold placards and pictures of Iran's late leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in protest against opposition demonstrations during Ashoura in Tehran December 30, 2009. (REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl)

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Supporters of Iran's regime carry a banner of the US, UK and Israeli flags as they take to the streets in Tehran on December 30, 2009. (ATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty Images)

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Pro-government Iranian demonstrators gather in a rally at the Enqelab (Revolution) Sq. in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2009. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

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A large crowd of supporters of Iran's regime take to the streets in Tehran on December 30, 2009, in a show of force against the opposition which it accuses of being "pawns of the enemies." (ATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty Images)

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Iranian demonstrators sign a scroll to deliver to the judiciary chief, condemning the opposition leaders, in a pro-government rally at the Enqelab (Revolution) Sq. in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2009. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

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A supporter of the Iranian government waves the flag of Iran as he takes part in a protest against the opposition demonstration during holy day of Ashoura in Tehran December, 30 2009. The demonstration in Tehran's Enghelab square was one of several massive rallies in major Iranian cities, called for by clerics, seminary schools and the armed forces in response to a string of opposition protests against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's disputed June re-election. (REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl)

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