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===Protests===
{{Main|2011 Iranian protests}}
Clashes broke out between police and groups protesting the election results from early morning on Saturday onward. At the beginning, the protests were considered peaceful. However, as time passed, they became increasingly violent. In a stand-off that later took place in north Tehran between supporters of Ahmadinejad and Mousavi, an angry crowd of citizens broke into shops, started fires, and tore down signs.<ref name="cnn">{{cite news | title = Iran election protests turn violent | publisher = CNN | date = 13 June 2009 | url = http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/13/iran.election/index.html | access-date = 13 June 2009}}</ref> Civil unrest took place as riot police on motorbikes used batons to disperse Mousavi supporters who staged a sit-in near the interior ministry, where the results were announced. Up to 2,000 Mousavi supporters erected barricades of burning tyres and chanted "Mousavi take back our vote!".<ref name=surprise>{{cite news|first=Ian|last=Black|newspaper=Guardian|title=Ahmadinejad wins surprise Iran landslide victory|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/jun/13/iran-election-ahmadinejad-wins-president|date=13 June 2009|access-date=15 June 2009 | location=London}}</ref>

The demonstrations grew bigger and more heated than the [[Iran student protests, July 1999|1999 student protests]].<ref name=abc>{{cite news|title=Election Battles Turn Into Street Fights in Iran |publisher=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]] |url=https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=7830630 |date=13 June 2009 |access-date=13 June 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090616044520/https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=7830630 |archive-date=16 June 2009 }}</ref> [[Al Jazeera English]] described the 13 June situation as the "biggest unrest since the 1979 revolution." It also reported that protests seemed spontaneous without any formal organization.<ref name=al>{{cite news|url=http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/06/2009613172130303995.html.|title=Poll results prompt Iran protests|publisher=[[Al Jazeera English]]|access-date=13 June 2009|date=13 June 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090618073345/http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/06/2009613172130303995.html.|archive-date=18 June 2009|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> Two hundred people protested outside Iran's embassy in [[London]] on 13 June.<ref>{{cite news |language=fr |publisher=[[Yahoo!|Yahoo! France]] |title=Manifestation devant l'ambassade d'Iran à Londres |url=http://fr.news.yahoo.com/3/20090613/twl-iran-presidentielle-gb-manifestation-ba66223.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604113522/http://fr.news.yahoo.com/3/20090613/twl-iran-presidentielle-gb-manifestation-ba66223.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=4 June 2011 |access-date=13 June 2009 |date=13 June 2009 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> [[Ynet]] has stated that "tens of thousands" protested on 13 June.<ref name=youth/> Demonstrators are chanting phrases such as "Down with the dictator", "Death to the dictator", and "Give us our votes back".<ref name=youth/><ref name=free>{{cite news|work=BBC News|title=Ahmadinejad defiant on 'free' Iran poll |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8099115.stm|date=13 June 2009|access-date=13 June 2009}}</ref> Mousavi urged for calm and asked that his supporters refrain from acts of violence.<ref name=free/>
[[File:Tehran protest (1).jpg|thumb|left|Protesters in Tehran, 16 June]]
[[Ynet]] reported on 14 June that two people had died in the rioting so far.<ref name=youth>{{cite news|publisher=[[YNET]]|first=Dudi|last=Cohen| date = 14 June 2009| access-date = 14 June 2009|url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3730786,00.html|title=Tehran youth: I'll never vote in Iran again}}</ref> That day, protests had been organized in front of the Iranian [[embassies]] in [[Turkey]],<ref name=npr>{{cite news|publisher=[[National Public Radio]] |date=15 June 2009 |access-date=15 June 2009 |title=Protester Killed After Opposition Rally in Iran |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105394655 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090618072613/http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105394655 |archive-date=18 June 2009 }}</ref> [[Dubai]],<ref name=npr/> [[Paris]],<ref name=BBC090614>{{cite news|publisher=[[BBC Persian]]| date = 14 June 2009| access-date = 17 June 2009|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/persian/iran/2009/06/090614_p_ir88_protests.shtml |title=Iranians Protests Across the World (In Persian)}}</ref> [[Berlin]],<ref name=BBC090614/> [[London]],<ref>{{cite news|publisher=[[Yahoo!|Yahoo! Canada]] |url=http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/090614/world/iran_vote_britain_protest |title=Protesters rally outside Iranian embassy in London |access-date=14 June 2009 |date=14 June 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090629121855/http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/090614/world/iran_vote_britain_protest |archive-date=29 June 2009 }}</ref> [[Rome]],<ref name=tgcom>{{cite news|url=http://www.tgcom.mediaset.it/mondo/articoli/articolo452407.shtml|title=Voto Iran, corteo studenti a Roma|language=it|publisher=[[TGCOM]]|access-date=14 June 2009|date=13 June 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090615084314/http://www.tgcom.mediaset.it/mondo/articoli/articolo452407.shtml|archive-date=15 June 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Sydney]],<ref>{{cite news|publisher=[[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]]|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/06/20/2603808.htm?site=sydney|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100721020007/http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/06/20/2603808.htm?site=sydney|url-status=dead|archive-date=21 July 2010|title=Iranian-Australians protest election result| access-date = 19 June 2009| date = 19 June 2009}}</ref> [[Vienna]]<ref name=BBC090614/> and [[The Hague]].<ref>{{cite news| title=Tweehonderd demonstranten bij ambassade Iran| newspaper=[[NRC Handelsblad]]| access-date=15 June 2009| date=14 June 2009| language=nl| url=http://www.nrc.nl/binnenland/article2271183.ece/Tweehonderd_demonstranten_bij_ambassade_Iran| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090616073952/http://www.nrc.nl/binnenland/article2271183.ece/Tweehonderd_demonstranten_bij_ambassade_Iran| archive-date=16 June 2009| url-status=dead| df=dmy-all}}</ref> In response to the reformist protests, tens of thousands of people rallied in Tehran on 14 June to support the victory of Ahmadinejad.<ref name=join>{{cite news|date=14 June 2009|access-date=14 June 2009|title=Crowds join Ahmadinejad victory rally|work=BBC News|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8099501.stm}}</ref>

On 15 June, Mousavi<ref>{{cite web|url=http://twitpic.com/7gt6e |title=Pictures |publisher=Twitpic.com |access-date=20 June 2009}}</ref> rallied, with a number of his supporters ranging anywhere from hundreds of thousands<ref name=huff>
*{{cite news|work=Huffington Post|date=17 June 2009|access-date=17 June 2009|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/13/iran-demonstrations-viole_n_215189.html|first=Nico|last=Pitney|author-link=Nico Pitney|title=Iran Updates (VIDEO): Live-Blogging The Uprising}}
*{{cite news|work=Huffington Post|date=17 June 2009|access-date=17 June 2009|title=Iran Election Live-Blogging (Wednesday June 17)|first=Nico|last=Pitney|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/17/iran-election-live-bloggi_n_216925.html}}
*{{cite news|work=Huffington Post|date=17 June 2009|access-date=17 June 2009|title=Iran Election Live-Blogging (Tuesday June 16)|first=Nico|last=Pitney|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/17/iran-election-live-bloggi_n_216578.html}}
*{{cite news|work=Huffington Post|date=15 June 2009|access-date=16 June 2009|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/15/iran-election-live-bloggi_n_215965.html|first=Nico|last=Pitney|title=Iran Election Live-Blogging (Monday June 15)}}
*{{cite news|work=Huffington Post|date=14 June 2009|access-date=15 June 2009|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/14/iran-election-live-bloggi_n_215449.html|first=Nico|last=Pitney|title=Iran Election Live-Blogging (Sunday June 14)}}
*{{cite news|work=Huffington Post|date=14 June 2009|access-date=14 June 2009|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/14/iran-updates-video-live-b_n_215378.html|first=Nico|last=Pitney|title=Iran Updates (VIDEO): Live-Blogging The Uprising (Saturday, June 13)}}</ref> to three million,<ref name=time/> in Tehran, despite being warned by state officials that any such rally would be illegal. The demonstration, the largest in the Islamic Republic of Iran's 30-year history, was Mousavi's first public appearance after the election. Protests focused around [[Azadi Tower]], around which lines of people stretched for more than nine kilometers. Gunshots were reported to have been fired at the rally, where Mousavi had spoken to his supporters saying, "The vote of the people is more important than Mousavi or any other person."<ref name=npr/><ref name=huff/> All three opposition candidates made an appearance.<ref name=time>{{cite magazine|title=Tehran's Rallying Cry: 'We Are the People of Iran'|date=15 June 2009|magazine=[[Time Magazine]]|access-date=15 June 2009| url=http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1904764,00.html?xid=rss-topstories| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090618140519/http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1904764,00.html?xid=rss-topstories| url-status=dead| archive-date=18 June 2009}}</ref>

Competing rallies for Mousavi and for Ahmadinejad took place on 16 June. The pro-Ahmadinejad protesters, chanting the phrases "Death to America!" and "Death to Israel!", outnumbered their opponents, but they did not match the numbers of opponents who had protested the day before. Reports from the state media and elsewhere stated on 16 June that seven people have died in all of the protests so far.<ref name=recount>{{cite news|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/16/iran.elections.protests/index.html|title=Rival demonstrations fill Tehran streets|publisher=CNN|date=16 June 2009|access-date=16 June 2009|author1=Octavia Nasr|author2=Reza Sayah|author3=Samson Desta|archive-date=22 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201122115926/http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/16/iran.elections.protests/index.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iran-protests17-2009jun17,0,2676845.story|title=In Iran, rival factions rally after days of unrest|newspaper=[[The Los Angeles Times]]|date=16 June 2009|access-date=16 June 2009 | first1=Borzou | last1=Daragahi | first2=Ramin | last2=Mostaghim}}</ref> However, [[Times Online]] quoted a Rasoul Akram Hospital nurse that day who asserted that 28 people have suffered from "bullet wounds" and eight have died so far.<ref name= timesO>{{cite news|author1=Philippe Naughton|author2=Tony Halpin |title=Ahmadinejad challenger calls off Tehran rally to avert further bloodshed|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6510663.ece?token=null&offset=0&page=1|publisher=[[Times Online]]|date=16 June 2009|access-date=16 June 2009 | location=London | work=The Times}}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> Over half a million reformist Iranians marched silently from Haft-e-Tir Square to Vali Asr Square on 17 June. Huffington Post reported that day that 32 people had died protesting so far.<ref name=huff/>

On 14 February 2011, the largest Green demonstrations in Iran in more than a year broke out. In response, pro-government MPs called for the death of opposition leaders [[Mir Hussein Moussavi]] and [[Mehdi Karroubi]].<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/17/world/middleeast/17iran.html?_r=1&hp Students in Iran Clash at Funeral], nyt.com, 16 February 2011</ref>