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...city waits, punk skateboarders show off their moves to the thump-thump of French electro at Enqelab Sports Complex. Groups of women in chadors amble by the fragrant booths of spice dealers at the city's famed Grand Bazaar. Young couples lounge in a coffee shop at Haft e-Tir, the epicenter of a quashed protest just last week...
...fire on the crowds. This time, the Basij militia and members of the élite Revolutionary Guards were less kind, chasing protesters with batons, firing tear gas to disperse the crowds and, according to reports, arresting dozens in the process. One source said that the underground Haft e-Tir subway station was teargassed. Two Revolutionary Guards were seen with bandaged noses around Haft e-Tir Square; the exact toll of the violence was not immediately clear...
...after former President Mohammed Khatami called for a national referendum on the legitimacy of the current regime, demonstrators came out - albeit in smaller numbers - first at Haft e-Tir shortly before 5 p.m., and then spreading westward on Kharim Khan Street. Because of the overwhelming security presence - hundreds of Guards and undercover Basij were waiting at Haft e-Tir and other major squares - protesters adopted a relatively new strategy, eschewing their symbolic green to blend in with the after-work crowd, then suddenly chanting slogans like "Death to the dictators" before scattering and re-emerging down the street...
...recent university graduate who lives near Haft e-Tir says he did not go to the protest because he knew security forces would be waiting there. "It's too dangerous," he says. Those who still go perhaps have less to lose; one man in his 30s, who earns roughly $300 a month working three jobs, has been to almost every protest thus far, with a bag of metal bearings in his pocket and a slingshot under his belt that he uses to target the Basij. "Yes, I'm risking my life," he admits. (See a video of TIME...
...Police suspect that Abu Tir was carrying out a copycat attack, similar to one on July 2 in which an Arab worker, apparently after a salary dispute with his boss, turned his bulldozer into a lethal weapon, killing three people on a main street in Jerusalem before he was shot dead. The July 2 attacker appears to have acted alone, with no ties to any Palestinian militant group. Although Tuesday's attacker, Abu Tir, was part of the extended family of a jailed Hamas member of the Palestinian legislature, no militant group has claimed responsibility for his attack...