Violence mars Iran presidential candidate campaign

Iran Focus:

Members of Iran’s hard-line paramilitary Bassij forces in Tehran’s Mellat Park attacked yesterday evening campaigners for the front-runner in Friday’s presidential election run-off.

Eye-witnesses reported seeing a group of posterboys, wearing campaign stickers for former President Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani over their clothes, being attacked by both the Bassij and plainclothes police as they were sticking up posters of the 70-year-old cleric in the park. ...