one of the losing candidates in that election mir hussein was savi still remains under house arrest earlier we spoke to a.f.p. correspondent eric randolph in tehran and asked how much of a threat the protests are for the regime. well this is the biggest test the regime has faced since there were mass demonstrations back in two thousand and nine the difference this time it is that. considerably more though it is very difficult to confirm the reports we're hearing for problems is due to restrictions on travel we do know that six protesters were killed last month on school these ocean. several other. very small towns and cities. all over the country these days. there is a start of crackdown was just been told the four hundred fifty people in the rest of iraq last three days were protests actually rose at least we don't know how many you've been arrested in other parts of the country. that was eric randolph speaking with us a short while ago to germany now we're on member of parliament and a leading figure in the far right party may face charges of illegal hate speech for her angry tweet on new

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so i thought they would have been like ted sabbaths -- ted savis. he would have had a field day editing that. anyway when i find his papers in ie house in the pennsylvania was telling you about 45 minutes ago, i am going through all of these papers and there is a letter from hood to his wife in january of 1879. that was the year he died. he died in august. there are two letters, he is in washington dc. he is meeting and he tells his wife he ran into randall gibson . randall gibson was a brigadier general commander of a louisiana brigade and he fought pretty much the entire war in the west, if not all of it. randall gibson was a subordinate. he was a brigade commander and he was from new orleans. he became a very close friend. as a matter of fact, he was the godfather of his oldest child that passed away. after the war, gibson became a congressman. hood is in washington and he writes. a letter to his wife. it's basically says, i ran into general gibson. don't you put something in there about your previous life and make it a memoir? so we didn't know