Mr Ahmadinejad showed his contempt for the recent protests against his election by visiting the Russian city of Yekaterinburg for a regional summit. Whereby his re-election was effectively endorsed not just by his hosts but other nations attending including China, India and Pakistan. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh

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This supporter of Mir Hossein Mousavi was among an estimated 100,000 demonstrators who marched silently through the streets of Tehran in a direct challenge to the authority of Iran’s clerical regime

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Iranian protesters, both young and old and many accompanied by children, were said by witnesses to have marched through central Tehran Haft-e Tir Square towards Vali Asr Square in the heart of the city. The rally had been called by the defeated presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi

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This picture, released by the Fars News Agency, shows some of the ten of thousands of Iranians in the 7th Tir square in Tehran

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Iranian protesters hold a demonstration outside Iran’s embassy in Central London, one of many protests around the world following allegations of vote-rigging in the re-election of President Ahmadinejad

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A protester waves Iranian flags in the Westwood section of Los Angeles

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Iranians living in Switzerland demonstrate in front of the United Nations European headquarters in Geneva

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Demonstrators occupy the Iranian pavilion of the Venice Art Biennale. The Iranian exhibition is entitled "Hope for the Future"

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An Iranian student and Malaysian police during a demonstration outside the United Nations office in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Police fired teargas to disperse the protesters

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Iranian supporters of the presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi attend a protest near their country’s embassy in Ankara

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Mousavi supporters hold up a banner during a protest in Berlin

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President Ahmadinejad is depicted in a Nazi uniform during a demonstration outside the Iranian consulate in Dubai

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Iranian students protest against the election outside the Iranian embassy in Kiev

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Iranian supporters of Mr Mousavi outside the Iranian Embassy in Oslo

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Iranian students living in Portugal protest in Lisbon

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A demonstrator in Vienna wears a makeshift mask of President Ahmadinejad

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Iranian university exchange students protest outside Iran’s embassy in Rome

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Thousands of Iranians clashed with police yesterday as they defied an ultimatum from supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for an end to protests over last week’s disputed presidential election

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The protesters were strengthened in their resolve when Mir Hossein Mousavi, the defeated candidate in the country’s presidential election, issued his most forthright challenge so far to the outcome

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Mr Mousavi said yesterday he was "ready for martyrdom" in leading protests that have shaken the Islamic Republic and brought warnings of bloodshed from Iran’s Supreme Leader

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Also yesterday, riot police and militiamen fire live bullets, tear gas and water cannon in a vain attempt to quell the most serious challenge to the regime since the 1979 Islamic revolution

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Mr Mousavi’s supporters gesture during a protest in Tehran

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Chanting "death to dictatorship", large crowds gathered in a boulevard linking Tehran’s Freedom Square and Revolution Square

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They threw stones, knocked members of the Basiji militia off their motorcycles and set the machines on fire

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Videos made by people on the streets yesterday were said to have recorded protesters chanting, "Death to Khamenei". Never before had the supreme leader faced such open hostility from his compatriots

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Iranians walk past a bus set alight by protesters during a demonstration yesterday in Tehran

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Mr Mousavi’s supporter throw stones at riot police during yesterday’s demonstration

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A bruise on the cheek of a protester in Tehran

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Protesters run for cover during last night’s clashes

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A protestor holds stones during a march on a street in Tehran, in this picture uploaded to Twitter

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Another scene of violence as Mr Mousavi’s supporters clash with police

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