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Described it as, not histructur. there have been allegations of widespread torture. i ve met dissidents, journalists who had to flee out of iran because they have been hunted by security forces. the movement has stayed alive. but the fact is the government has a monopoly on the use of force and used it to crush opposition protests in the past. it seems to have done that again today to try to break things up. it also has a monopoly on media in iran, on state media. so even though the opposition leader said we want to try to get to freedom square, the central square where the hundreds of thousands of government supporters celebrated the anniversary of the islamic revolution, they were not able to get there. and take a listen to this, this is what the government media said about those opposition protests today. a few hundred supporters of iran s defeated presidential candidates have rallied in the capital tehran. supporters gathered in a western ....
Islamabad. thanks so much. so the only pictures are coming from social media sites and that s because cnn did apply for a visa to cover the anniversary events, but that request was denied by iran s government. cnn s ivan watson is on the iran desk here in atlanta monitoring the situation. what can you tell us? reporter: iranian state tv had wall-to-wall coverage of this carefully choreographed state demonstration, hundreds of thousands of people attending mahmoud ahmadinejad s speech. this is what state tv had to say about the opposition demonstrators today. take a listen. a few hundred supporters of iran s defeated presidential candidates have rallied in the capital tehran. supporters gathered in a western tehran district. police had stepped up security in the area to prevent possible disturbances. the defeated presidential candidate was seen among the protesters. reporter: now let s take a look here. we ve been gathering video being ....