Two badly damaged black box recorders have been recovered from a plane that crashed in Iran on Wednesday, killing all 168 people on board.
A newspaper editor seen as close to Iran’s top authority said on Saturday defeated candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi had committed ”terrible crimes”.
Iran confirmed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president and said a row over his re-election was over, leaving opponents who cried foul with few options.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused Barack Obama on Thursday of behaving like his predecessor towards Iran.
Iran’s reformist opposition leaders have vowed to press on with legal challenges to an election they say was rigged.
Authorities said they would teach a lesson to ”rioters” in the worst unrest to befall the country since 1979.
Police broke up a protest in Tehran and the Revolutionary Guards said they would help crush what they called rioters opposing the re-election
A suicide bomber blew himself up at the mausoleum of the father of Iran’s revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, state media said on Saturday.
Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, defended Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Friday as the rightful winner of the presidential election.
Defeated Iran presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi urged supporters to stage peaceful protests to mourn those killed after disputed elections.