Iranian authorities have denied claims by opposition websites that at least four people have been killed in clashes between protesters and police in central Tehran. The websites on Sunday said the victims were killed as police used live ammunition and tear gas to disperse them.But Azizollah Rajabzadeh, the Tehran police chief, insisted that no protester had been killed. "So far there have been no reports of killings and no one has been killed up to now," Rajabzadeh was quoted by the Iran Students News Agency as saying. However, pictures linked on the Twitter microblogging site appeared to show a man with a wound to his head being carried away by opposition protesters.The clashes in Tehran came as the country's Shia Muslims marked Ashoura, a religious event commemorating the 7th century death of Prophet Muhammad's grandson. Amateur video footage posted on the internet, said to be from the protest, showed protesters running away from riot police or Basij militias on motorbikes.
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