Seven people were shot dead in Iran on Monday, when they allegedly “tried to attack a military location”, according to Iran’s state radio, another demonstrator was shot in the head outside a local base of the Basij Islamic volunteer militia.

The seven were killed in shooting in western Tehran, Foxnews reports. It was the first official confirmation of Monday’s fatalities in Tehran’s Azadi Square, where witnesses had seen at least one person shot dead and several others seriously wounded by gunfire from a compound for volunteer militia linked to Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard.

According to the Times, a demonstrator was also shot dead outside a local base of the Basij Islamic volunteer militia, which was set on fire.

The shootings occurred after hundreds of thousands of people supporting opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi defied an official ban on the march and gathered to protest fraud in last week’s election, Fornews said.

More rallies are planned today in the tinderbox of Tehran, providing a possible flashpoint for rival demonstrators, the Times reported.

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