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Several hundred people had taken part in the rally in front of the Hassan Mosque in north Tehran, where they had earlier gathered to commemorate the 40th day since the deaths of Mohammad Mokhtari and Mohammad Pouyandeh.
Police beat up some protesters with batons, among them relatives of the writers, after they began shouting: "Down with the Dictatorship," and other slogans against the regime, witnesses said.
The mourners poured into the street after they were denied their request to have their eight speakers deliver speeches in memory of the writers.
Explosion at Tehran Newspaper Office - An Iranian newspaper, Khordad, renowned for its outspoken criticism of the conservative clergy has been attacked by unidentified assailants.
The official news agency said two men on a motorbike threw a stun grenade at the newspaper'soffices in Tehran, shattering windows and slightly injuring two reporters.
An anonymous phone caller said that next time it would be a bomb.
Hardliners Force Taheri off the Podium - Stone-throwing Iranian hardline militants disrupted a sermon by a top moderate cleric backing President Mohammad Khatami, amid a bitter row over a spate of killings of dissidents, newspapers reported on Saturday.
The daily Salam said some 100 militants cut off loudspeaker chords and threw sticks, stones and metal rods at a podium where Ayatollah Jalaleddin Taheri was preparing to deliver his sermon at Friday prayers in the central city of Isfahan.
``When an iron rod was thrown at Ayatollah Taheri, his bodyguard fired blank rounds in the air, but the agitators kept throwing stones and shoes. (So) Ayatollah Taheri left the podium,'' Salam said.
Ayatollah Warns Against the Internet - A top Iranian cleric warned on Friday against the ``threat'' of the Internet and satellite television to Iranian society and called for counteracting such influence with films on the history of Islam.
``The danger of the Internet and satellites that broadcast from a close range threatens us...They broadcast disgraceful, immoral pictures and threaten all humanity and morality and chastity,'' said Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, the secretary of the powerful Guardian Council.
Speaking at a Friday prayers gathering at the Tehran University campus, the conservative cleric said it would not be enough to tell people not to tune in to foreign media, and that active reaction was necessary.
``The radio and television (must) set up more networks and make attractive films about the lives of the imams (Moslem religious leaders), the prophet (Mohammad) and the early history of Islam,'' Jannati said.
In his sermon, broadcast on Tehran radio, Jannati warned that if due action was not taken, ``Islam and the revolution would be damaged and people would give in to passions.''
Under Iranian law, satellite television receivers are banned and hoisting a satellite dish is an offence punished by a fine and the confiscation of the equipment.
Several Internet service providers and an Internet cafe are currently active in the Islamic republic, but users -- mostly government organisations and professionals such as journalists -- have to get an official permit and sign a statement promising they would not connect to ``immoral'' sites or those ``against national security.''
Prices of Internet services, including E-mail, are high for the average Iranian and therefore the users are mostly government bodies and commercial firms.
All three of them were known by the opposition and the International organizations for their struggle against the oppression in Iran and their public statements in favour of a secular regime.
The speaker of the Iranian parliament, Ali Akbar Nateq-Nuri, said the government had been able to allocate only forty to forty-five per cent of the money earmarked for ministries and state organisations.
Correspondents say the slump in oil prices has left Iran with a budget deficit this year of over six-billion dollars.
Iran is among the world's five main oil producers.
The writer, Mohammad Ali Kushan, had been invited by the Norwegian Forum for the Freedom of Speech.
He was reported as saying that he would not return to Iran at the moment because of the recent murders of intellectuals and writers who were critical of the government.
The Iranian Intelligence Ministry announced this week that it has arrested some of its own agents, whome it blames for a spate of killings of liberal intellectuals and politicians in the recent months.
Foruhar's 40th, Protests Turn Violent - Around 5000 mourners marked the 40th day of the Foruhar's murders. When the crowd shouted 'Death to dictatorship' and 'Freedom, Security..This is the Nation's Slogan' the protest turned violent and the demonstrators clashed with the security forces.
According to them all political murders are coordinated and ordered by the special office of Khamenei (the clerical leader) and carried out by members of the pasdaran. They also claim the Islamic regime has prepared a list of 179 dissidents to be killed inside and outside of Iran.