Unrest: a police motorcycle burns as supporters of defeated opposition candidate Mousavi take to Tehran's streets
Planned pro-Mousavi rally 'illegal'
Iran's Interior Ministry has declared as illegal a rally which supporters of defeated moderate presidential candidate Mirhossein Mousavi plan to hold in Tehran later today, accordnig to reports.
"The Interior Ministry issued a statement and said no permission had been issued for a rally ... The holding of such a gathering would be illegal," Reuters quoted state radio as saying.
"Some seditious elements had planned to hold a rally and by fabrication said they had permission from the Interior Ministry. Any disrupter of public security would be dealt with according to the law," it said.
Unrest has rocked Tehran and other cities since the Interior Ministry released results on Saturday that showed hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had defeated Mousavi by a landslide in Friday's presidential election.
Mousavi has appealed to the Islamic Republic's top legislative body to annul the result because of what he alleges were irregularities, a charge the Interior Ministry and Ahmadinejad have dismissed.
On Sunday, Mousavi's supporters handed out leaflets calling for a rally in downtown Tehran this afternoon.
The election result has sparked a wave of rallies and protests across Iran by Mousavi supporters. Iranians who voted for Ahmadinejad have also taken to the streets to show their support for the hard-line president.