Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini a key regime monument, killing himself and wounding three people, two of them foreigners, state media reported.
The head of Iran's security council, Abbas Mohtaj, warned Ahmadinejad's main challenger, moderate former premier Mir Hossein Mousavi.
"Your national duty tells you to refrain from provoking illegal gatherings.... Should you provoke and call for these illegal rallies you will be responsible for the consequences."" he warned in the letter made public on Saturday.
But Mousavi hit back, accusing the authorities of deforming the political system established by the Islamic revolution of 1979 through electoral "cheating."
"If this huge volume of cheating and changing the votes... which has hurt people's trust is presented as the very evidence of the lack of cheating, then it will butcher the republican aspect of the system," he said.
"If the people's trust is not matched by protecting their votes or if they are not able to defend their rights in a civil peaceful reaction, there will be dangerous ways ahead," Mousavi warned.
Al-Arabiya news reported yesterday afternoon that two helicopters were dropping boiling water on the pro-Mousavi protestors in Tehran
US President Barack Obama warned Iran that the "world is watching" its actions.
"We call on the Iranian government to stop all violent and unjust actions against its own people," Obama said.
This is by far the biggest challenge Imam Khomeini's Wilayat al Faqih, rule ever faced since the doctrine was created .
"The people of Iran will accept your rule no more," Afshin Ellian, an Iranian exile wrote in an open letter to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei. The professor of law demanded that Iran's religious leader allow democratic change
Your regime is finished. Surely you realize that too, Excellency? And if you have not realized it yet, then surely you, just like the Shah some 30 years ago, must have heard the hundreds of thousands in Tehran shouting "Allahu Akabar, down with the dictatorship!", the professor concluded
Sunday
11:40 pm Hezbollah deputy Naim Qassem: The statements by Sfeir on the eve of the elections affected Hezbollah and Wilayat al Faqih with regards to participation in a system that does not follow the Islamic teachings. He added that it was the Wali al Faqih that permitted Hezbollah to participate in a government system that is not Islamic. He stressed that Hezbollah always acts on instructions of the Wali al Faqih, just like Christians act as instructed by the Pope
09:33pm Iran's Mir-Hossein Mousavi demanded from the Iranian authorities to reveal the names of the victims of the demonstrations
09:12pm French president Sarkozy: "What is happening in Iran is extremely worrying, and the attitude of the Tehran authorities in the face of the legitimate desire for truth of a large part of the Iranian population is inexcusable,"
09:09pm Newsweek magazine reports the detention of its journalist in Iran
03:56 Al-Arabiya reports Mousavi urged his supporters to send their complaints to his personal email
03:20 Al-Arabiya says Iran ban on reporting was extended
02:36pm Future TV: Former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami warns about the dangerous repercussions of the decision to prohibit demonstrations in Tehran
02:28pm Sfeir: I do not understand the obstructing third vote concept
02:05pm Al-Arabiya: A Lebanese woman living in Riyadh in Saudi Arabia is diagnosed with swine flu
01:46pm Mufti Jouzo: Nasrallah's speech confused religion with politics
01:38pm Americans are more optimistic the improved economic situation
01:25pm family of slain Lebanese officer Samer Hanna ( killed by Hezbollah) appealed to Patriarch Sfeir to pursue the cause behind the murder of their son: There is no guarantee of any of the military in the country, they said
12:22 Iran's parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani implied Saturday that the election authority sided with a certain candidate ( Ahmadinejad) as thousands of defiant anti-government protesters once again swept into the streets of the capital.
12:21 FPM's MP Ibrahim Kanaan told OTV: The opposition should Let the ruling majority rule
11:45 The Presidential media bureau denied a story earlier reported by the Elaph website that claimed discussions by the president with his visitors of internal issues related to the past parliamentary elections and their results.
11:37 The Communist party called for preparations to face the Netanyahu- Obama danger and urged the support of the Palestinian people
11:32 MP Hassan Khalil called for turning the page on the past and for consensus between the political rivals through a Government of national Unity
11:30 Hezbollah’s media relations bureau: Hezbollah’s Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah discussed the internal political situation with a delegation from the Tashnag party
11:20 Al-Arabiya: Iranian authorities arrest daughter and four family members of former president and leading opposition figure Akhbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
11:19 Iranian TV: Thirteen killed during clashes with police in Tehran
11:19 Aridi told NBN TV: Can we refuse to expand our alliances if the right circumstances apply, regardless of March 14 and 8 ?
11:04 MP Hadi Hobeich told New TV: Any Syrian-Saudi agreement will reflect positively on Lebanon. I do not see PSP leader MP Walid Jumblatt anywhere, except within the March 14 alliance. His openness to the opposition is positive.
10:50 Mario Aoun: We welcome any agreement between Christian parties. The FPM leader will play a fundamental role in the national dialogue
09:45 Nabil Nicolas : Patriarch Sfeir has to recognize that General Aoun represents 100 % of the Christian Maronite vote and that his stance on the eve of the polls was a violation of the election law. Nicolas didn’t explain the mathematics of the 100% , because according to final official results Aoun represented about 42 % of the Christian vote
9:40 Maronite Patriarch Sfeir in his Sunday sermon thanked all those that " understood our stances regarding the elections and had expressed their sympathy and denounced all that was thrown at us by individuals harboring well-known intentions."
08:00 As midnight Saturday the 2009 elected parliament is now officially in power and Siniora's cabinet has become the care-taker government . Parliament's eldest MP Abdel Latif el-Zein, has to call for a parliament session to elect a new speaker.
07:15 MP George Adwan told al Balad: The unwillingness of Speaker Berri to allow the discussions of controversial issues led to our reservations regarding his reelection despite the fact that there is no other candidate. He added The Lebanese Forces are now in the reconciliation stage with everyone but the most pressing one is the reconciliation with Franjiyeh
07:04 Minister Marouni : March 14 alliance has already started preparations for the elections of municipalities and mukhtars
07:01 Majority Sources : Creating a Christian bloc only within March 14 has become difficult
06:58 Al Balad: Hariri won't return from Riyadh before Khoja ( Saudi information minister) returns from his secret negotiations in Damascus
06:50 Abou Faour : The ministry did what it could to get Lebanon out of horrors and disasters
06:45 Sources: Aoun is demanding 6 Christian ministerial posts out of 15 and one sovereign ministry
06:36 Zain told an Nahar : 15 days from the election day is the deadline for the election of the speaker and the only candidates is Nabih Berri
06:30 Time is repeating itself in Lebanon after 56 years Zain is the eldest member of the parliament and Tueni is the youngest
06:22 Abu Faour : we haven't started discussing shares in the new government yet and the national reconciliation will replace the obstructing one third share for the opposition
06:19 March 14 the official : Franjiyeh visited Damascus to get its support for demanding obstructing one third share for the opposition in the new government
06:15 Zain told Ash Sharq al Awsat : I will not be calling for electing a speaker on Monday and I will not be embarrassing anyone before matters are clear
Saturday
09:36 Obama warned Iran that the "world is watching" urgee Iran to 'stop all violent and unjust actions'
09:34 Four people who have arrived recently from the US and Canada are under observation after showing swine flu symptoms
08:00 NNA: Two killed, nine injured in a bus accident in the northern village of Qalamoun
06:54 Mousavi: Electoral forgery planned months in advance and reiterated his demand for the result to be annulled.
06:28 Al-Arabiya reports two helicopters are dropping boiling water on pro-Mousavi protestors in Tehran
04:44 A suicide bomber struck the mausoleum of revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, killing himself and wounding three people, two of them foreigners, state media reported.
3:00pm President Suleiman received a letter from his Sudanese counterpart congratulating him on the success of the polls. He also met with Army chief Gen. Jean Kahwaji and congratulated him on the security success during the polls.
