| Supporters of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his defeated challenger staged rival rallies on Tuesday as the nation grappled with its worst crisis since the 1979 Islamic revolution. As the authorities imposed a clampdown on foreign media, the country's supreme leader said he was in favour of a partial recount in the election that returned Ahmadinejad to power amid opposition claims of vote-rigging. State television showed massive crowds of flag-waving demonstrators packing a square in Tehran at a regime-organised rally, and similar scenes from a march by supporters of defeated presidential challenger Mir Hossein Mousavi. |
