http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,89306,00.html
TEHRAN, Iran — Pro-clergy militants on motorcycles chased down protesters and beat them with clubs early Friday, the third night of anti-government demonstrations in Tehran, witnesses said.
The student-led protests were aimed at Iran's hard-line clerics, who control the security forces and are locked in a power struggle with reformist President Mohammad Khatami
Hundreds of young Iranians, many in their teens, took to the streets around Tehran University and the Laleh hotel, formerly called the Intercontinental, about a mile away, witnesses said. The protesters denounced the country's supreme leader, hard-liner Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
"Khamenei, the traitor, must be hanged!" they chanted, according to witnesses. Criticism of Khamenei is usually punished by imprisonment, and public calls for his death had been unheard of until this week.
In some parts of Tehran, activists who support the clergy-led regime circled knots of student protesters, gunning their motorcycle engines and, according to some witnesses, using cattle prods.
Some of the demonstrators fought back, punching the attackers and setting their motorcycles on fire.
The unrest subsided by daybreak, and few injuries were reported. One pro-government activist was admitted to a hospital with a stab wound but the injury was not life-threatening, according to Shariati Hospital staff.
At times, riot police prevented the government supporters from confronting the protesters and did not respond to stone throwing, witnesses said. At other times, police rushed the protesters, sending them fleeing into the darkness.
The pro-Khamenei activists chanted: "Oh, exalted leader, we are ready to follow your instructions!"
Thousands of people looked on, sometimes clapping with the protesters and taking up their chants. Residents near the university hospital left their doors open so demonstrators could find quick shelter if the authorities moved in.
Looks as if one of the terrorist nations might be in the mood to change on it's own - I remember hearing one of those lying Republicans say that there was a good possibility that a regime change in Iraq would lead to this type of thing.