Spew Alert ! NY Times Calls Massive Iran Protests A “Gathering” and Police Used to “Disperse” Them!
Iran Gathering Is Broken Up
By ROBERT F. WORTH and NAZILA FATHI
Published: July 30, 2009
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Thousands of people gathered in Tehran on Thursday to commemorate those killed in Iran’s post-election crackdown, but a vast deployment of police officers used tear gas and wooden batons to disperse them, in some of the largest and most violent street clashes in weeks.