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Germany summons Iranian ambassador

AFP, Berlin, June 15, 2009 – Germany’s foreign minister summoned Iran’s ambassador on Monday in protest at heavy-handed police action against demonstrators following the weekend’s disputed presidential election.
’The actions of the Iranian security forces are completely unacceptable,’ Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on public television.
He also called on Iran to clear up ’immediately and without delay’ allegations of irregularities in the election, which according to official results was won by a large margin by the hardline incumbent, Mahmoud Ahamdinejad.
Chancellor Angela Merkel later also sharply criticised the crackdown on protesters.
’We condemn the arrests made during the demonstrations,’ she told reporters, adding that she was concerned about reports of restrictions on press freedom and called for complete transparency in announcing the results of the poll.
Authorities banned a nationwide rally by supporters of Ahamdinejad’s main challenger in the vote, Mir Hossein Mousavi, after two days of street protests and some of the worst rioting in Tehran in a decade.
But thousands defied the order Monday to join the mass Opposition rally in Tehran.
Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has told the top election supervisory body to examine Mousavi’s complaints about vote-rigging, state television reported.

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