Photo report – Police clamp down on dissent in Iran capital

 Thu. 31 Aug 2006

Iran Focus

Tehran, Iran, Aug. 31 – Iran’s State Security Forces have dispatched motorbike units in several districts of the Iranian capital in an effort to crack down on social dissent there.

“The police’s priority in carrying out this plan is to deal with public disorder including disturbances on the street and sound pollution”, Colonel Amir-Hossein Kaffash, who heads the SSF in Tehran’s 6th Precinct, recently announced.

The following photos were taken by Iran’s state-run news agencies:

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