TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Witnesses are describing a sometimes-violent confrontation today between police in Tehran and protesters who converged on a square near the parliament building.
One woman says there were police "everywhere" and that they stopped her and others from entering the square. State-run TV says security forces dispersed a crowd of about 200 people.
Witnesses say security forces beat some of the protesters with batons, and fired tear gas canisters and rounds of ammunition into the air. They say some of the demonstrators fought back, while others fled to another plaza about a mile to the north.
Earlier today, Iran's supreme leader insisted that Iran's government won't "yield to pressure" from the demonstrators. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has ordered the protests to end.
But the wife of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi remains defiant, saying protesters won't give in to a situation she compares to martial law. On a Web site, she says his followers have a constitutional right to protest.
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