The crisis over Iran’s disputed presidential elections continued on Wednesday with defiant protestors taking to the streets in response to a broadened official media clampdown that now includes blogs and web sites used by opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi’s supporters. On Thursday, Mousavi called for another mass rally in open defiance of a call from Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's most powerful figure, for the nation to unite.
Iranian authorities yesterday continued arresting protestors in an effort to silence the clashes. Foreign journalists have been banned from reporting in the streets and many web sites used by Mousavi's backers to share information and send out details of Iran's crisis have been blocked. Iranian officials have stepped up claims that foreign hands are behind the unrest, directly accusing the United States of meddling in the crisis.