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Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/28/AR2009122800290.html
Iranian Security Forces Crack Down on Dissidents
(Washington Post) Thomas Erdbrink and William Branigin - Iranian security forces stormed opposition offices in a series of raids Monday and rounded up at least a dozen prominent dissidents in a new crackdown. Brig. Gen. Massoud Jazayeri of the Revolutionary Guard Corps accused the U.S. and Britain of organizing recent protests. In Tehran, relatives and opposition Web sites charged that the body of Ali Mousavi, a nephew of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi, had disappeared from a local hospital, forcing the cancellation of a memorial service at which protesters had planned to gather.