Hard-liners have attacked senior pro-reform leaders in the streets of Tehran as tens of thousands marched in competing mass demonstrations organised by opposition and government supporters.

GUNMEN fired on opposition protesters yesterday, killing at least one person and seriously inuring others, during a mass protest in Tehran against alleged election fraud.

IRANIANS packed polling stations yesterday in a tight presidential race between a well-known cleric, the default choice for reformists, and a hard-liner seeking to reclaim the values of the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Iranians packed polling stations today in a presidential race too close to call between a well-known political moderate and his hardline rival seeking to reclaim the values of the 1979 Islamic Revolution.