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The Call to Rally / Latest Updates: Marches Planned in 35 Cities by MUHAMMAD SAHIMI in Los Angeles 12 Feb 2011 21:3076 Comments<http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tehranbureau/2011/02/wave-of-support-for-demonstrations-on-february-14.html#disqus_thread>[image: 25BahmanPosterFeb12.jpg]*Updates -- Saturday, 23 Bahman/February 12* *The march routes in 35 cities have been announced.* *Student organizations and political activists of four major universities in Tabriz -- the University of Tabriz, the University of Medical Sciences, the Islamic Azad University, and Sahand University of Technology -- have issued a statement calling on people to take part in the Monday marches.* *The Muslim Student Associations of the University of Tehran and the University of Medical Sciences of Tehran have issued a statement calling on students to take part in the marches.* *The Association of Teachers and Scholars of Qom, a leftist clerical group, has issued a statement calling on people to take part in "non-governmental and independent marches" to show support for the people of Tunisia and Egypt, a reference to Monday's planned marches.* *The Association of Human Rights Activists has issued a statement demanding that the government guarantee freedom for the gatherings and marches on Monday.* *A statement has been issued and distributed in Babol, in Mazandaran province in northern Iran, calling on people to gather on Monday in support of Mousavi's and Karroubi's call.* *Twelve university student organizations outside Iran, representing Iranian students, have issued a joint statement, calling on people to take part in the Monday marches.* *Rasoul Montajabnia, deputy secretary general of the National Trust Party, Mehdi Karroubi's political group, was attacked and injured by unknown assailants while saying his prayers in a mosque.* *Abdolnaser Mahimani, head of the press association of Golestan province, in northeast Iran was arrested, as was his nephew Mohammad Hossein Mahimani.* *Mojtaba Shayesteh, member of the Islamic Iran Participation Front, the country's largest reformist group, was arrested.* *The Seraat cultural foundation, founded in 1986 by Dr. Abdolkarim Soroush to publish the works of Islamic scholars, has been attacked by security forces who confiscated documents and arrested a number of students and others.* *A group calling itself "Hezbollah Students followers of Imam Khamenei" has issued a statement calling on the government to allow the Monday marches to show that "the Islamic government is not afraid of the gathering of a few hundred people, and to prove to the seditionists [the hardliners' name for supporters of the Green Movement] that they can no longer fool people."* *Reports from Tehran indicate that most satellite TV channels that broadcast Persian-language programs into Iran are being jammed by the government.* Iran will not allow 'illegal' opposition rally (AFP) 4 hours ago TEHRAN An interior ministry official said on Saturday Iran will not allow the opposition to hold a rally in support of Arab uprisings which regime backers believe to be a ploy for fresh anti-government protests. Opposition leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi had sought ministry permission to stage a rally on Monday which they said was to show solidarity with the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt. "These elements are fully aware of the illegal nature of the request. They know they will not be granted permission for riots," Mehdi Alikhani Sadr, a senior official at the ministry's political bureau, told Fars news agency. Permission for "riots by seditionists" will not be given, he said, referring to opposition leaders blamed by regime officials for widespread unrest after the disputed re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2009. Backers of Iran's Islamic regime say the opposition leaders intend to use the rally to stage anti-government demonstrations, similar to those in 2009. The post-election protests left dozens of people dead, hundreds wounded and thousands arrested in a huge security crackdown on demonstrators. Although Tehran is not permitting the opposition movement to hold a rally, it has come out in support of the demonstrations in Arab nations. Ahmadinejad himself said on Friday it was the "right" of Egyptians to protest against US ally Hosni Mubarak, just hours before the Egyptian strongman stepped down. 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