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Video of Basij attack on Karoubi’s vehicle in Qazvin on January 7, 2010

T his video purportedly shows the vehicle of Iranian opposition leader and cleric, Mehdi Karoubi, being attacked by Basijis in Qazvin on January 7.  The video shows what looks like two people shooting at the vehicle, and appears to corroborate the claims made by Karoubi and his son.  They had reported that the vehicle was fired upon, damaging it, but not injuring anyone inside.  The vehicle is said to have been an armored one. At about 18 seconds you will notice two individuals standing to the right of the vehicle firing shots at it!

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Dave Siavashi is a new media journalist, blogger, technologist, editor and founder of Iran News Now. A pioneer in live-blog reporting on the Mideast and breaking news, his work has been quoted in multiple news publications and he is regularly tweeted and retweeted by the journalists of the Twitterverse. He writes for Iran News Now and EA Wordview.
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