17 KILLED AS IRANIANS CLASH WITH RIOT COPS; EX-PRESIDENT'S DAUGHTER IS ARRESTED IN RAID: Regime attacks demonstrators.Byline: Mark McGivern RIOT-TORN Iran's death toll in the wake of the disputed presidential election has risen to at least 17. State television said 10 people were killed and 100 injured in clashes on Saturday between demonstrators and police armed with water cannons, tear gas tear gas, gas that causes temporary blindness through the excessive flow of tears resulting from irritation of the eyes. The gas is used in chemical warfare and as a means for dispersing mobs. and truncheons. Yesterday, police and members of the hardline Basij militia took up position on the streets but there was no word on any new clashes . The total killed, including a suicide bomber Noun 1. suicide bomber - a terrorist who blows himself up in order to kill or injure other people act of terrorism, terrorism, terrorist act - the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political who attacked the shrine of Islamic revolution leader Ayatollah Khomeini Noun 1. Ayatollah Khomeini - Iranian religious leader of the Shiites; when Shah Pahlavi's regime fell Khomeini established a new constitution giving himself supreme powers (1900-1989) Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini, Khomeini, Ruholla Khomeini on Saturday, is officially set at 17 in the past week. But observers say it is hard to verify the figures. Human rights campaigners said scores of injured demonstrators were arrested at hospitals after doctors were ordered to report them to police. Some seriously injured protesters sought refuge at foreign embassies in a bid to evade arrest. State media also said the government had arrested the daughter and four other relatives of former president Hashemi Rafsanjani, one of the country's most powerful men. Rafsanjani's eldest daughter, Faezeh Hashemi Faezeh Hashemi Rafsanjani (فائزه هاشمی رفسنجانی; born 1962) is an Iranian politician and the daughter of former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, currently studying in , 46, was the only one still in custody last night following the arrests on Saturday. She was seen last week on TV speaking to supporters of opposition candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi. He alleges fraud in the June 12 election, which the government said was won by President Ahmadinejad. The arrests are the strongest sign yet of a serious divide among Iran's ruling clerics. Rafsanjani, 75, heads powerful bodies including the Assembly of Experts, who have the power to monitor and remove the supreme leader. The assembly have never publicly reprimanded supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei since he took over in 1989. But the current crisis has highlighted that his status is no longer seen as untouchable untouchable Former classification of various low-status persons and those outside the Hindu caste system in Indian society. The term Dalit is now used for such people (in preference to Mohandas K. , with protesters openly defying his orders to leave the streets. CAPTION(S): RAFSANJANI: Daughter held BLOOD ON THE STREETS: An injured man is helped, main picture. Above, a protester hurls a missile at riot cops |
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