Iranian police clash with up to 3,000 protesters

This report is based on the accounts of witnesses reached in Iran and official statements carried on Iranian media.

Riot police clashed with up to 3,000 protesters near a mosque in north Tehran on Sunday, using tear gas and truncheons to break up Iran's first post-election demonstration in five days, witnesses said.

They said others described scenes of brutality — including the alleged police beating of an elderly woman — in the clashes around the Ghoba Mosque.

Sunday's clashes broke out at a rally that had been planned to coincide with a memorial held each year for Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti, who came to be considered a martyr in the Islamic Republic

British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said "about nine" employees were detained Saturday and that four had been released.