Armed pro-government demonstrators opened fire on the car of an Iranian opposition leader shattering its windows, his Web site reported on Friday.
Sahamnews said the shooting happened late Thursday while former presidential candidate Mahdi Karroubi was leaving a building in Qazvin, some 90 miles (140 kilometers) west of Tehran.
The report added that some 500 people had been demonstrating outside the building where he was staying since the day before.
The site described the demonstrators as armed and said police were unable to disperse them.
The shooting represents a rare armed attack on an opposition figure. In 1999, pro-reform politician Saeed Hajjarian was shot in the face, paralyzing him.
The attack is an indication of the political turmoil rocking the country and possibly slipping out of control of the government.
So here's what I want to know. The opposition is armed with leaflets, posters, camcorders, and Twitter. The pro-government groups are armed with... firearms?(!) In a country this tightly controlled, there's no way that's a coincidence.
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