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Page last updated at 16:31 GMT, Friday, 17 July 2009 17:31 UK

Iran call for protesters' release

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Former Iranian President Ali Akbar Rafsanjani has called for the release of people jailed after protesting at the result of the recent election.

In his first Friday sermon since the vote, he also said large numbers of Iranians still doubted its result.

Opposition supporters interrupted the sermon at Tehran University with chants of support for defeated election candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi.

Jon Leyne reports.

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