The government announced it would try 16 people for their roles in last month's street protests and charge them with "warring against God," which carries the death penalty. The head of the Iranian police force warned opponents of the regime that the authorities were now monitoring all e-mails and text messages. Government goons defaced the grave of a student protester who was shot dead by police last year, pockmarking her gravestone with bullet holes. A parliamentary panel accused Tehran's prosecutor of beating three imprisoned protesters to death.
And the nation's leaders continued growing filthy rich.
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