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Following the disputed re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the President's opponents have again marched through the streets in Iran. lepoint.fr you to relive the major events on Wednesday.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry summoned the ambassador of Switzerland, which represents U.S. interests in Iran, to protest against "interference" in its American affairs, said state television.

The head of the International Agency for Atomic Energy Mohamed el-Baradei, in an interview with the BBC, said he was convinced that Iran was seeking to acquire nuclear weapons, especially to be recognized as a "major power". "The nuclear weapon is not in our defense doctrine. It would put us in a vulnerable position. We have never been and will never have nuclear weapons," says the Iranian representative to IAEA, Ali Asghar Soltanieh.

State television broadcasts brief images of the event in Tehran, banned by the authorities, supporters of Mir Hossein Moussavi. The foreign media are not authorized by the government to cover the event.

Tens of thousands of supporters of opposition candidate Mir Hossein Moussavi manifested again in central Tehran.

Reporters Without Borders, which called to demonstrate in Paris Thursday, said he was "outraged" and "disturbed" by the media situation in Iran, where she had not heard from journalists and bloggers, said Wednesday its Secretary General, Jean-François Julliard .

Mohsen Rezai, Iranian conservative candidate in the presidential election of June 12, requires the Department of the Interior to provide that, so far, the detailed figures of the votes cast, suggesting that if he would seek the annulment of election as did the other two losers in the presidential election, the Conservative Mir Hossein Moussavi moderate and reformist Mehdi Karoubi.

Berlin points out that there were "irregularities" in voting in Iran and a performance audit would be warranted.

14 h 07: Iranian footballers undertake

Several Iranian footballers wear a green bracelet, the color of the candidate Mir Hossein Moussavi, during the 1-1 draw against South Korea in Seoul with the qualifications au Mondial-2010. The star of the team Ali Karimi, sometimes nicknamed the "Asian Maradona", and the Osasuna players Masoud Shohjaei, scorer during the game, and Javad Nekounam are among the players on this bracelet. In Iran, soccer is a national passion.

While Tuesday, Nicolas Sarkozy denounced the "magnitude of the fraud at the polls in Iran, the french president argued Wednesday that" the idea of an opposition in Iran "is" an interesting perspective. " According to his spokesman Luc Chatel, the Head of State thinks that there is a "democratic aspiration is a" new element ". At the same time, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs french again called on Iran to conduct a "credible and impartial investigation" on the conduct of the Iranian presidential elections, believing it raises "important questions". Tuesday, after the statement by Nicolas Sarkozy, the Iranian diplomats have strongly called on France to show of "intelligence" and "polite."

The opposition candidate Mir Hossein Moussavi of Iran reiterates its call for the cancellation of elections and new elections in a statement on its website.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad believes that his re-election is proof of the confidence of the people in his government. "Twenty-five million people have confirmed this way of running the country which is now engraved in the revolution," he says. He added that the results of the poll reinforces the "defense of the revolution" in the world, saying that the presidential election "has nothing to envy to the western democracy."

The Iranian Foreign Ministry accused Western media of being the "spokesman" of the "rioters". The announcement says that these "enemies" will be "checkmate". "Some countries, in a reaction moved, hasty and rude towards illegal demonstrations, supported the latter in contrast to the principles and democratic rules and became the spokesman for the movement of the rioters, and tarnish the image light of the Islamic Republic "says the text.

The Revolutionary Guards threaten Web sites and blogs covering the crisis since the end of the presidential election. Emerging from his silence since Saturday, the military directly to Ayatollah Khamenei urges users to delete any content that could "create tension" in the country on pain of prosecution. This threat arises when the Internet becomes an essential communication tool since the foreign media are denied cover the Iran crisis since Tuesday.

Mir Hossein Moussavi, presidential candidate and conservative moderate, called "the Iranian people" within a day of mourning Thursday, with "gatherings in mosques" and "peaceful marches, to console the families of martyrs and wounded of events against the power, "according to its website Wednesday.

Secretary of State for Human Rights Rama Yade announced on France Info, without further explanation, that the French embassy in Tehran was "attacked from outside by demonstrators." Lepoint.fr contacted by the Embassy of France expressed his astonishment. "The minister has two days late! Monday, early afternoon, 30 to 40 Iranians have just launched eggs and tomatoes against the wall! The Iranians are not evil," says one. No sense of fear seems to prevail among the staff.

A scholar, Hamid Reza Jalaipour, and an analyst Said Laylaz, close to the reformist camp has argued that Mir Hossein Moussavi, who was beaten in the presidential election, were arrested at their homes, according to relatives.

Iranian newspapers Wednesday morning publish photos of the peaceful march of supporters of Mir Hossein Moussavi, while foreign media were banned from covering the event. The one from the daily Ettelaat, whose director is appointed by the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has two large color photos side by side, one of the "official" support for the regime and the other walking supporters of Moussavi. The publication of this requires the approval of the authorities who exercise strict control over the content of all newspapers.

Supporters of plans to Moussavi gather Wednesday afternoon in downtown Tehran, according to participants in this movement. During the parade on Tuesday, protesters have given the word to be found Wednesday at 17 pm local time, 15 h 30 French time, on the place Haft-e Tir, a major in the capital. For now, Mir Hossein Moussavi has not decided on this new collection.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs Wednesday reaffirmed France's position, very critical of the Iranian regime after the controversial re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as President of the Islamic Republic. "The need to support the democrats, reformers, we say loudly and clearly," explains Bernard Kouchner on RTL