Police beat protesters and fired tear gas and water cannons at thousands who rallied Saturday in open defiance of Iran's clerical government, sharply escalating the most serious internal conflict since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
President Barack Obama challenged Iran to halt the "violent and unjust" crackdown, his bluntest language yet on the crisis.
"We call on the Iranian government to stop all violent and unjust actions against its own people," Obama said in a written statement. "Suppressing ideas never succeeds in making them go away."
Iran's English-language state TV said as reports of street clashes became public …
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