i was going to tehran. what's the one tweet platform that we have been using since we have been on this? i think it was tehran news or tehran elections. >> iran elections. >> i was monitoring that one. they said, there is a fire. we didn't want to go with it until we actually saw the pictures. lo and behold, here is the picture. where is this? >> this is at tehran at the square. this is basically where the demonstrations are taking place. when you look at the pictures and you listen to the screams in the background, you have to think, this is unbelievable. these people have no permit to demonstrate, let alone set fire in the middle of the street. the way they were taught -- >> that's brazen. >> think about it, rick, we have been reporting the story for a few weeks. what the iranian government is doing, they are taking video like this, pictures like the pictures we are looking at, they are posting them on the local government station. >> let me stop you for a minute. this is someone who took the picture whil

>> tensions escalating in the streets of tehran. of course, we hadn't seen wide scale protests for about a week and a half. and that's changing and changing quickly this morning. this all started happening about an hour ago. there was a lot of buzz on the internet that there was going to be mass protests in the streets of tehran today to commemorate a ten-year anniversary for the student protest back in 1999. we were monitoring things here at the iran desk. things were quiet about an hour and a half ago and then people started moving in to revolution square in tehran. there was lots of security forces, and within the past hour, we can confirm reports of clashes between some of those security forces and protests there who are trying to gather. just getting off the phone with someone who is reporting one person, at least, injured after a clash with a security force. they're reporting an injury to the facial area, according to this source they were trying to convince the security forces were trying to convince this man to get into an a

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>> well, fareed, i am an academic at the university of tehran. and i'm -- i would be very surprised to know that mr. ahmadinejad would be supportive of me because i've always been a critic of his administration, but i think it is my duty to be honest. fanned he has won the election, i will have to accept the results, just like when mr. hugo chavez wins elections in venezuela, i think the people who oppose him have to accept the results. and also, i think that if we look back at my own personal history, i was a volunteer in the iraq is/iran war, when iraq invaded iran and i surprised two chemical attacks by the iraqi regime and those chemical when pops were provided to iraq's -- to saddam hussein by the european union countries and the united states. >> you know that that's not true. >> and i think that we -- >> professor marandi, you know it is not true that -- >> the technology and the support. >> you're trying to -- >> saddam hussein with support. >> agricultural credits. >> come on, fareed, you know that the united states did back -- you know

that follows the still simmering tensions in tehran. newshour correspondent kwame holman begins our coverage. >> reporter: after more than ten days of relative, but restive, calm, protestors were back in the streets of tehran today, nearly a month after the disputed election that returned mahmoud ahmadinejad to power. with a virtual media blackout in place, amateur video posted on youtube and similar web sites showed demonstrations in the capital. the hallmark cries of the islamic revolution-- shouts of "death to the dictator" and "god is great"-- once again filled the air. today also marked the tenth anniversary of a violent crackdown on student protests at tehran university. authorities warned of a crushing response to unrest, and again today, riot police and militia dispersed crowds. a state-sponsored tv network described the scene. >> police used tear gas in one locality to disperse the crowd. security has been tight in the streets in downtown tehran thursday, but onlookers did gather in numbers to watch the demonstrations. >> repor

breaking news from a news agency in tehran.anian people suffered teargas in clashes with officials. the more on that as we get it. today's attacks in jakarta in the world's most populous muslim nation, it is too early to say who's behind the attacks. here's our correspondent. >> it is almost seven years since the war on terror came to indonesia with the bali bombings of 2002. more than 200 people died. a busy night spot. indonesia became a testing ground in which a spectrum of values competed for support. at one end was a vision of democratic vision -- freedom, the other, and islamic to othea. the government has beenç battlg a long-running islamic insurgency and islamic extremists in thailand have taken up arms against their own government. the group known for bombings your is a cover related and one of its leaders was arrested in 2007. in figuring, the u.s. government praised indonesia for combating extremism and embracing democracy. >> indonesia has experienced a great transformation in the past 10 years. building strong and

. >>> in tehran, tens of thousands of protesters take to the streets today after calls from a senior cleric to release political prisoners. >>> in the middle of summer, you might not be thinking about flu season but in britain they are. and the warnings about the potential death toll from swine flu are staggering. >>> and then from turkey, an ancient town lost more than 2,500 years ago has been found. beneath the sea, thanks to some israeli divers. we'll tell you how it happened. >>> from the world's leading reporters and analysts, here's what is happening from around the world. this is "worldfocus." made possible, in part, by the following funders -- >>> good evening. i'm martin savidge. >>> they posed as gas at luxury hotel in jakarta, indonesia. the business of terrorism. the men blew themselves up this morning with bombs that they had assembled in that room. one attacking the marriott the other the nearby ritz-carlton that killed at least eight people and wounded more than 50 as they brought terrorism back to the world's most populist muslim nation for the first time in four year

they gathered at t huge cemetery outde tehran. the young woman w shot in a demonstration. >> it was all about being young and feeling ssionate about freedom. sheid not belongo any party or group or support any faction. every other young iranian was ther and she was one of em. >> despitehe huge security esence, supporters made it to her grave site, and the police moved in. we witnessed pple with their faces covered in bld. in o pce, i watcd people getting beaten up. others rued, trying to stop it. in central tehran lice said in a motorcycle cavalry but the government's attets to intimidatehe opposition i having less and lesaffect. the taliban have called on people in ahanistan to boycotthe presidential elections next nth. there currently on the weit to thpole for august 20. a taliban website sa instea of voting, people should attack enemy positions and blocked roads on the e of election. the w yrk attorney general said some banks wch have received billions o dollars in bailout have continued to pay big bonuses to employees. the ban

but once again, members of the opposition were on the streets of tehran today in force. this time, they tried to avoid the ban on demonstrations by attending friday prayers. inside this ceremony, former president rafsanjani issued a statement. one of the most powerful figures in the islamic republic, he called for the release of political prisoners and an open debate about the disputed election on state tv. >> there are some people, a large number of our people who say they are doubtful about the result of the elections, so we should try to help these doubts go away. back outside, iridium tv showed the police on motorcycles moving in. -- >> iranian tv show the police on motorcycles are moving in. the pictures show what appears to be a peaceful crowd. the opposition has shown in to bring supporters on to the street, whatever the obstacles. one website said there were millions there today, though that is impossible to verify. it is not clear if they have a strategy beyond that. president ahmadinejad it is said to be sworn in on august 2. he has been visiting eastern iran,

it was on its way from tehran. eyewitnesses said it plummeted suddenly from the sky, exploding on the ground. some spoke of the plane's circling for a few minutes as if the pilot was looking for an emergency landing site. others say the planes tail was on fire. >> my brother in law was only 20 minutes away and the air of " -- the aircraft fell out of the sky and exploded on impact. >> most of those on board were armenian and georgian and the passengers included eight members of the youth judo team. several are in service but they are aging and their safety record is not good. investigations have begun to try to find out the cause of the crash. the presidents of iran and armenia have sent condolences to the families of the victims. they declared thursday as a day of mourning. >> a group of israeli soldiers who took part in the assault against hamas released a report claiming their army was guilty of abuses. these allegations came from a group breaking the silence. some of the accusations might even amount to war cri

and the streets of tehran were mostly calm. until today. several thousand mostly students defied a government threat to smash demonstrators if they took to the streets. in amateur videos and photographs posted today the government seemed to keep its word. firing shots in the air. tear gas, and clubbing protestors who flashed "v" for victory and shouted death to the dictator. the demonstrations were organized on internet, networking sites like twitter despite government attempts at censorship. stay in big groups if you see police said one message. we won today despite the beatings said another. today' were the first significant demonstrations in 11 days in tehran after the government crushed a larger movement of hundreds of thousands who claimed last month's election of mahmoud ahmadinejad was a sham. the rallies marked the 10th anniversary of a 1999, iranian student revolt which the government brutally put down. was today the start of a new wave of opposition? nbc's tehran bureau chief, ali arouzi is monitoring the situation from london. >>

security has been tht in the strts in downtown tehran thursdaybut onlookers did gather in numbers to watchhe demonstrations. >> reporter: other rerts said today's demonstratio attracted a few thousand peope. that is mh smaller than the gatherings of hundrs of thousan last month in support of opsition candidates, especially mir hsein mousavi, who said the election wasigged in ahmadinejad'savor. last nigh the iranian president said e accusations of fraud were baseles. >> ( trslated ): in the ecount of the vote, no fault as discovered and, basicall those who haclaims couldn't even prode one document as a proof of fraud in the elction. the whole naon understood this, althougwe don't expect ordinary people to prode proof, buit is not acceptable from those who claimo be politicians. > reporter: on monday, iran supreme leader, ayallah ali khamenei, lasheout forcefully at his perceived exteral adversaries. >> ( translated ): leaders f arrogant countries and interlopers interferin in the affairs of the ismic republic should alize this-- that eveif the iranian nation has differencesmong them,

so the ball is in tehran's court.il iran responds, the west should simply sit tight, build support for tougher sanctions and more isolation if necessary. it might seem like the west has bad options right now but iran has fewer and worse ones. it's economy is doing very badly. the regime has faced its greatest challenge since its founding. its proxies in lebanon, issue and elsewhere are faring worse than expected and we now know the answer to a very big question, are there moderates in iran? yes. within iran there are millions of people, including very powerful members of the establishment who favor a less confrontational approach to the world. let the supreme leader and president mahmoud ahmadinejad stew a bit. time may not be on their side. now we'll hear from david miliband about whether africa gets too much foreign aid. let's get started. miliband. >>> let's ball club the iran, the government officials who have been arrested by the iranian government. you assert that none of these people were in any way involved in

fine, we can go into tehran. when i sat down to write this book, i proposed to publisher that i write the best and brightest it came to iran. how did we lose iran? not just how we lost iran how about did we miss it all these years? why did we ignore it? why is it a can we kicked down the road? it was a war we didn't want to fight. including reagan. you're not david halberstam, why don't you trust something else, your personal point of view. in all the years in cia i served on periphery. i was in tehran in 78 leading up to the revolution, the place was absolutely confusing. confusing to iranians as well and khomeni when he eventually came back. he didn't know what to do the country. i was a student of iran during the eight-year war, it was probably bloodiest, was bloodiest war after world war ii in the 20th century. iranians lost a million or more people. the fact we don't know how many people they lost tells you how devastating in the cia we assumed iranians were irrational, beyond help and matter the place would

. >> yeah, heidi, this is shaping up to another dramatic day in tehran. more clashes between security forces and opposition supporters. this time at tehran's main cemetery, where about 3,000 people showed up this morning to mourn neda and others killed on june 20th during protests. now, why today? in iran, and in islam, it's tradition on the 40th day after someone dies to mourn their death and who can forget neda? the images of her last moments captured on videotape shortly after june 20th. she was not by police. she became rallying cry for opposition supporters, sort of an icon, but about a couple of hours ago, 3:30 p.m. local time in iran, sources telling cnn that about 3,000 mourners showed up to her grave site, and we've been speaking to our sources, eyewitnesss on the ground for the past couple of hours and they do report a number of clashes. both witnesses and state-funded television say opposition leaders near mousavi showed up. one saying that mousavi was not able to get out of his car, but his wife was able to get out of the car. and security for

they fill the cemetery in tehran with a grave site in neda. young women shot in the street at the height of the protest movement last month. the government told them not to do it again. they did it anyway. they came out, so did the troops, the riot police and tear gas. even the candidate, mir hossein mousavi showed up. the crowd started to get out of hand and he had to leave. here is what we want to do. we watch these and listen to some of these pictures. i want to bring in reza sayah. he is running cnn's iran desk once again today. give us a sense of how would you describe what's happened today on the streets of tehran? >> well, today told you that despite seven weeks of fierce crackdown by iran's leadership, this opposition movement still has plenty of momentum and is not going away. keep in mind, the opposition leaders went out to the leadership of iran and said, look, let us do this. let us commemorate this day. we are not going to make any noise. we are just going to read the koran and pray in silence. the government said, no, no more gat

but what is their assessment of the solidity of the regime in tehr tehran? the picture is certainly very compl complex. as i said earlier, the only merit of these troubles and khamenei's decision to basically throw his weight behind ahmadinejad for the arab states is to clarify the situation. we are no longer dealing with a political elite that debates option and so on. iran today is controlled by the most radical, the most confrontati confrontational faction. you can dispute that judgment and iranian politics are very fluid and i certainly appreciate your observation earlier that pund punditry in iran has always disappointed in a way. but you -- there is a need to understand that even when there is the perception of the iranian threat is very cute, what they worry -- they worry as much about the west's relationship with iran as they do about iran's influence in the region. and right now they feel in the short term they will feel in a better position. thank you. >> thank you very much, emile. we have an opportunity for your questions and comments. i would li

very interesting, inside tehran university.ly, during friday, people are urged to say, death to the usa, death to america, death to israel. today, when they were urged, instead of saying that, they kept saying, god is great. an apparent show of defines to the organizers of friday prayer. also, we show you this. there were a number of arrests. among them, according to mir hossein mousavi's facebook page, human rights activist was arrested. he was walking with a group of women's rights activists when unidentified plainclothes man pulled her into the car. things have quieted down throughout tehran. a big day. this was one of the biggest shows, protests that we have seen with the opposition over the past few weeks. >> reza sayah, thanks so much. >>> he will be in a cast for a while. he is in good sfirt. a smiling pope benedict the xvi left the hospital. the vatican says he fell in his room overnight at his vatican home in the alps. he underwent a successful 20-minute operation. the cast has to stay on for months. he managed to cele

this is downtown tehran. the cemetery here.'s where thousands of mourners gathered to remember neda, the first piece of video coming into the iran desk about a couple hours ago. there you see the main cemetery in tehran what appears to be hundreds of people in this particular piece of video. but sources on estimating that about 3,000 people showed up to remember neda and several others killed during the protests on june 12th. about eight days after the disputed vote. who could forget the 26-year-old who was shot and killed. her death, her final moments videotaped. the world saw it. she became an icon sort of a rallying cry for opposition supporters. iran's leadership had asked permission from the government to mourn neda and the several others killed. the government denied permission, but opposition leaders and their supporters defied that ban. they came out also showing up himself, opposition leader mousavi and there you see video coming in from press tv. now, it's very unusual that state-run, state-funded state tv is showing

. >>> 2,000 to 3,000 protesters crowded into the streets of tehran today. a pro-government militia used batons and tear gas to disperse them. this allegedly shows today's demonstrations. so far we have not been able to confirm its authenticity, i want to point out. today's protests came on the tenth anniversary of a student uprising. this is another -- this is amateur video. i apologize, we do not have that second video. we'll continue to run this one for you. but again, we have not confirmed whether this is authentic. back in 1999, 200 students protested the closing of a reformist newspaper that supported a hardline activist. they broke windows, set fires and attacked students at tehran university. again, you can see some fire, and a lot of smoke in what we believe to be, or what is said to be a protest there in tehran today. >>> car chases, not child's play by any means. this one involved, not one, not two, but three kids. who was behind the wheel and where were they going? a little girlvanishes and in the coming weeks her dad's being deployed to iraq. wh

iranian security violently broke up demonstrations in downtown tehran today. and blocked opposition leader mir mousavi from addressing the crowd as the dispute over iran's elections seems far from over. it was supposed to be a day of mourning. at least 1,000 demonstrators flashed victory signs in a cemetery on the outskirts of tehran. they came to pray by the grave of neda aga-sultan, the woman killed. her death recorded on a cell phone has become a symbol of the opposition to the president, mahmoud ahmadinejad's contested re-election. >> i don't see protests subsiding. they're looking for nse of injustice and outrage.g >> reporter: but even today, on holy ground, iran's security forces moved in, swinging batons, and firing tear gas. with nearly all foreign journalists forced out uf iran by the government, the demonstrators recorded the clashes themselves. in one a gunshot is clearly seen and the protestors posted blogs, and internet messages. people chant, "we are all one voice." government that has died," wrote "we are neda. our neda is not dead it's the gov

he's been monitoring today's events from ba route until recently he was in tehran. >>e was he-on. he talkeabout justice and even therophet mohammed the respect of those he rul and making these ferences. and in the more political part of the friday prayer sermonhe discussed the issue of politil prisoners. he discussed thehuttering of newspapers. he talked abouthe importance of allowing t -- >> outside tehran university where the prayer srvice was held, tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets. itas the biggest demonstration since those which took placen the daysmmediately follong e election. this grainy video said to of today's protest was posted on the website, youtube. >> is swed that is green movement despite some people's doubts remains a pontfoce. it hasnot subsided. that there a huge number of people who are willing to sk life a limb and liberty by gong out into the seets. this must be very worrying fo th elders of the ismic establishment. >> in photos released by t associated press, members ofhe ardline beidgis militia. charged the crowd firing tear gas. one pho s

hooman majd was in tehran in the lead-up to the election last month. he is the author of "the ayatollah begs to differ." and afshin molavi is a fellow at the new america foundation and the author of "the soul of iran." thank you both for being with us. afshin molavi, i will start with you. we have friday prayers, people in the streets, tear gas, the speech by former president rafsanjani, what are we to make of all this? >> this a hugely important moment, judy. and important historically, not just in the context of today's events. now you have rafsanjani, a lion of the revolution, a man of the system standing forward in this important and symbolic venue, the friday prayer hall and saying something has gone terribly astray here. and then he is also speaking for the voices of millions of iranians who did feel that these elections were rigged. so the ultimate take away from this is rafsanjani did not take the wind out of the sail of the protestors. he did not offer conciliatory speeches some thought and he said this political fight will last another day. >

the sanctions so far are inefficient and do not deliver the message to tehran. furthermore we should hold the rights to sovereignty and that includes georgia's integration and azerbaijan and including the areas meddling in georgia or ukraine or inserting a sphere of influence as was said by medvedev is detrimental to european security. we should cooperate on matters of common interest such as transit of military supplies to afghanistan. russia did play ball on that, i think that remaining u.s. air base has to do with russia trying to demonstrate goodwill on this summit. i already mentioned wto, we should work on appealing the obsolete amendment. and incase of supplemental change of the membership, and should consider the admission of one to three to congress. the business and rule of law are intrinsically connected. without the rule of law and improvement in regime of russia there will be severe impairment. human rights and freedom are important policies, that the previous administrations, both clinton and bush tried to pursue and were increasingly rebuffed. so

thousands of protesters rlied on thetreets of tehran. the bbc is unable to report from tehran, so we assemble this report. >> these are pictures which the governme in iran does not want the outde world to see. at best, wcan establish th are ordinary people taki part in today's demonstratn, using a mobilehones outside iversity, where friy prayers are taking place evitably, the riot police and the much-feared vunteer milia moved in. soon there were using tear gas. one woman lled the bbc afterwards to say what she had exrienced. >> they through e gases, tear gases. they hurt babs, elderly people, old women. you cann imagine. >> insi the universit meanwhile, frid prayers were being addrsed for e first time since the electiony a former preside rafsanjani who led it to be kwn he syathizes with the oosition. most unusua government telesion did not broadcast his sermon. ot surisingly since he openly questioned the eleion results. many people haveoubts about it, he said, and trust nded to be restored as the demonstrato have been arrested, they sh

this flight took off from tehran.hen 16 minutes later it crashed in that field you are looking at. more than 7 a miles away in the middle of a farm. the flight was actually on its way to armenia. all 168 people on board were killed, including the 13 passengers. and about 16 crew members. now, when word first came out, state tv was saying all on board were feared dead but once iranian state tv brought up those live pictures, you knew there was no hope. the impact dug the trenk you are looking at right now. the plane was engulfed in plane. the plane broke into small pieces because of the impact. post most of the passengers on board were from armenia. also from the country of georgia and other nationalities were also on board. we don't know how many iranians were were on there the plane was a russian made caspian jet. it is a russian iranian joint venture. russia is an ally of iran and one of the top trading partners. plane crashes aren't as they are here. they blame it partly in the u.s. because of sanctions saying they

tehran airport officials blame u.s. sanctions that prevent them from getting parts to maintain aging aircraft. >>> police and florida said the men charged in killing a couple who adopted a dozen special needs children trained for a month before breaking intthe couple's old. byrd and melanie -- were shot to death and their home intensive care -- pensacola. several men, including an air force staffergeant were corrected. the daughter of the victim spoke on "good morning america." >> trying to plan two funerals while taking care of the children and just making sure that their lives are not disturbed has been a very overwhelming. >> police say robbery appears to be in the motive. the suspects still a safe from home. >>> and 11-year-old boy is recovering after he became trapped in the sand and ocean city, maryland. beach patrol said the boy was digging a tnel on the sand when it collapsed on top of him. lifeguard's helped dig the boy out and it performed cpr to resuscitate him. the senate health committee today passed the fi

it is clear from what is happening in tehran that the iranian people do not want to be isolated. they want to be part of the world. they want to communicate with other people in our countries in the world. what we want to do with iran is to engage and we want to establish with iran a normal relationship. >> and that engagement is what we are seeing right now. the hope is, obviously, the internal circumstance will drive this to a peaceful resolution. let's take the use of force. nobody has taken use of force off the table. people in europe have not done that. there is a concern about israel using force and the united states hasn't taken it off the table either. have people thought about the second and third order of consequences before or after a military strike against tehran? >> the eu adopted in 2003 a security strategy. that is our strategic concept. we are in favor of the diplomatic solutions. we don't think military strikes constitute resolution. we very much wish that this option is not implemented. we think the region is very complicated. it is complicated enough. we hope

an estimated 2,000 to 3,000 people filling the streets of tehran. protestors using this occasion to resume demonstrations against the outcome of last month's presidential election. police armed with batons dispersed the crowds. it's after a relative lull following last month's bloody crack down. always good to have you with us. >> thanks, erica. >> today is the tenth anniversary of that uprising at tehran university. how are the protests of today and the pro-democracy movement different today than from a decade ago? >> they're more experienced now than they were a decade ago. the uprising at tehran university often referred to as the massacre, the date the massacre occurred was primarily university students calling for greater rights, greater freedoms and it was easy for the government at that time to say this was a threat to the stability of the state and then to crush the protestors without any kind of response, any kind of reaction or consequences. ten years later the protestors are sophisticated. they understand the way to change this regime is

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at the karon cemetery, it was part memorial cemetery, part political protest -- at the cemetery in tehran. they chanted in support of the opposition leader, mousavi. and he made a brief appearance. witnesses say the police broke up the gathering using batons and arrested a number of people. they came to mark the 14th day after the death of a woman who has become the symbol of the iranian opposition after video of her death flashed around the world on the internet. the opposition believes she was shot by a member of the government militia. according to our family, she was not even taken part -- was not even taking part in the demonstration, just watching from the sidelines when she was killed. >> it was all about being young and feeling passionate about freedom. she was not political. she did not belong to any party or group. she did not support any faction. every other young iranian was there in she was one of them. >> one and half months after the disputed elections, the death toll of opposition leaders is increasing almost daily as the government finally releases the bodies to their fam

one analyst tells cnn this could be an effort by tehran to drag washington into tehran's post election> michael ware's exclusive report on how pakistan's military is offering to broker a cease fire in pakistan. suggesting the u.s. sit down with afghan taliban leader. in return pakistan wants america's help in reining in its number one rival, india. what is the u.s. response? michael spoke to the u.s. envoy to afghanistan, richard holbrooke. >> let me be very clear. i'm not going to rule out or rule in anything on a hypothetical basis and not get drawn into speculation on an issue this complicated. i want to underscore existing policy addressed by everybody in the u.s. government from the president on down. there is room in afghanistan for taliban people who have fought with the taliban, willing to participate in the political structure, who are willing to disassociate and renounce al qaeda and are willing to lay down their arms. >> in new york, part of bernard madoff's old office is up for lease. fbi agents investigating the massive ponzi scheme are still looking through hi reports on

this is housing in tehran. it hit a recession. it has gone from 500 to around 2,000 much, much faster than the inflation rate. wheat imports gone through the roof. they were more or less self-sufficient in food. now imports have gone through the roof. inflation has just gone through the roof. yes, the central government is giving them money but the salaries are not keeping up with inflation. so people are getting upset now. again, in the presentation, everybody shows numbers and you can see people with statistics but then there is some way you take the inflation of this month and multipolite by 12 to look at the inflation for the year and this is the central bank of iran. it shows the inflation was running around 25% last year. it has dropped now because of the recession to around 15% or 16%. if you add unemployment and unemployment -- sorry, thank you. if you look at unemployment, it is kind of an interesting statistic too. because the government gives you all kind ofst of statistics. it is 15%, 16%, 17%. i have no way of judging

the wreckage covered a dirt field northwest tehran. the witness reported that plane's tail appeared to be on fire and that it seemed to be circling shortly before the crash. >>> secretary of state hillary clinton stepped up pressure on iran today reminding that country's leaders that they have only a limited amount otime to accept the united states' offer to begin face-to-face talks. iran has so far refused to discuss or even scale back its nuclear capabilities. many experts believe iran is several years of being able to build a bomb but in a report in the german news magazine "stern" today, german intelligent source are quoted as saying there is evidence that iran could have a nuclear bomb within six months. in what was built as a major foreign policy speech this afternoon, secretary clinton let no doubt about the obama administration's position. >> iran does not have a right to nuclear military capacity and we're determined to prevent that. but it does have a right to civil nuclear power, if it reestablishes the confidence of the int

tehran once again the center of it all, the city where emotions are raw and anger is red hot. >> to run as a tense city tonight from a source i spoke to. there are a lot of people still out on the streets, shep, as iranians try to reinvigorate the protest movement that has been dormant. the people are not as a surly protesting at this hour. it is a subtle show of force. there are a lot of police. riot police and regular forces are out there keeping the company. the iranian government keeps trying to make these protests go away and hopes they will. the protesters are hard-core and keep coming. there's a group that is simply fearless. they are on the streets. we are hearing possibly thousands were out earlier today. there were ultimately dispersed with tear gas. these protesters are no less bold and the crowds we saw last month. the tehran governor warned people not to demonstrate, or they would be matched under the seat of "where people." -- "aware people." people have been out with the tear-gas. those who want to continue protesting are looking for locations always or simply spaces in w

god is great, reportedly vio fronight in tehran. oppositi protestors on again doing their call an response from the roof tops in the dark, sialalinthe uprising there ves. today r the first time in 11 ys they took to the strereet again in large numbe to protest the resus of the esidential election held last month, which ty say was rigged to ensure the re-election of mahmoud ahmadinejad. defying warningsrom the governor of tehran that anyon attending today' demonstraon would be me wh a crushing reonse, thousands of people and god is great. according to rorts at one protest also chanting,olice, protect us. to age extent, the protesters were met witholice batons and tear ga reporter, still forbidden to cover thprotests. once again we're countinon the people. counting on wiesses, and particants to somehow get outwarand to get out images of what's happening in their country. and the best wcan do, pass it on to you. joining us now is nbc's chie correspondent richd engel. thanks for coming in. >> it's real pleasure. >> h important is it tha

. >> reporter: speaking on iran's most important public stage, friday prayers at tehran university, the opposition's most important backer bluntly criticized the leadership for losing the people's trust, and demanded the release of political prisoners. "our goal is to regain the people's confidence," said the former president. "the situation today is bitter." on the streets, hundreds of thousands of protesters, some witnesses said more than a million, mounted the largest demonstrations in tehran in weeks. chanting "freedom" and "death to the dictator." the government's response was familiar. violence. security forces used the same old brutality, one protester told us by telephone. i was beaten. my mother was beaten. state television did not broadcast the speech live, but portraying protesters as vandals. still, the opposition proved today it retains vast public suppo support. >> with time, the legitimacy of been increased, it's further 't eroded. >> reporter: iranian authorities are making it difficult for protesters to get information out of the country. they've shut down the cell phon