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Iran protests: Government supporters join counter rallies
Crowds of pro-government supporters demonstrated Saturday in Iran after two days of rare anti-government protests which spread to a number of cities. Nearly 2,000 people gathered peacefully in the capital, Tehran, in support of the government's policies, an eyewitness there said. State-run Iranian broadcasters showed demonstrators waving the Iranian flag at the pro-government rally, which had been scheduled before the anti-government protests broke out. Meanwhile, coverage of the anti-government protests was very limited on state-run media, which referenced them only in passing. The protests -- described as the ... (full story)