Tehran - Iran's top opposition leaders condemned violence used by police and security forces against protestors, the reformist website Taqir (Change) reported Sunday. Former parliament speaker Mehdi Karroubi and former prime minister Mir-Hossein Moussavi met earlier this week in Tehran and discussed the latest protest demonstrations held November 4 in Tehran.
"I struggled against (former Shah, Mohammad-Reza) Pahlavi for 15 years but never seen such a (violent) confrontation," said Karroubi, who leads of the opposition party Etemad Melli.
Thousands of people demonstrated on November 4 against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his administration.
Tehran police arrested more than 100 people, including four foreign nationals, on charges of disturbing public order. Most of them have reportedly been already released.
The two opposition leaders and their supporters accuse the president of fraud in the June 12 presidential election and do not acknowledge Ahmadinejad's re-election.
Also Moussavi condemned the violence used by police and security on November 4 and said attacking women protestors was "breaking all acknowledged traditions of our country."
"The Green Movement condemns suppression and violence and will not use such methods even harmed them - we know that the power of rationality will eventually prevail over all weapons," Moussavi said in the meeting with Karroubi.
The so-called Green Movement supporting Moussavi is the main opposition force in Iran and initiator of the protest demonstrations.
"All we want is full implementation of the constitution, release of all political prisoners and freedom of expression and press. Islam is the religion of logic and not closing down newspapers and breaking pens," the former Iranian premier said.
Some 4,000 people were arrested after the disputed election with more than 100 of them are still jail on charges of planning to overthrow the Islamic establishment.
Days after the disputed June vote, which plunged Iran into its deepest internal crisis since the 1979 Islamic revolution, foreign media were banned from directly covering the street protests.
The Iranian police has meanwhile decided to intensify blocking Internet sites by setting up a special unit for so-called "Internet crimes."
The Iranian establishment has already blocked several internet sites, including some run by opposition groups as well as social networking websites like Facebook and Twitter which are used by opposition supporters.
