Thousands maintain Iran protests
Updated on 17 June 2009
Supporters of the defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi have been demonstrating in Tehran for a fifth consecutive day. Our international editor Lindsey Hilsum reports from Tehran.
Tens of thousands marched through the streets and a smaller protest, but one that was broadcast live on Iranian state television, came when the Iranian football team played South Korea.
At least eight Iranian players wore green wristbands - the colour of the Mousavi movement – as they went on the pitch.
Iran has now banned foreign journalists from reporting, or filming the events on the streets - but there are no controls on what they can say.
Earlier the British ambassador in Tehran was called in for a dressing down by the Iranian authorities amid claims of western interference in their internal affairs. That accusation of meddling was roundly rejected tonight by the State Department in Washington. The foreign secretary, David Miliband, joins Jon Snow now from Westminster.
