Protesters took to the streets of Tehran Feb. 14, one year after opposition leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karoubi were put under house arrest [2] for supporting Iran's last protest wave. Since their detention, their whereabouts have not been known. The opposition website Kaleme [3], which supports the opposition Green Movement, reported convergences of protesters at several points around the capital, holding generally silent marches, despite a heavy presence of riot police. (BBC News [4], DPA [5], Feb. 14)
That same day, the aircraft carrier, USS Abraham Lincoln, part of the Bahrain-based 5th Fleet, sailed through the Strait of Hormuz [6]—and had what the Pentagon called a "close encounter" with an Iranian patrol boat. The commander of the Abraham Lincoln, Capt. John Alexander, said such encounters “could eventually lead to a fatal miscalculation.” (MSNBC [7], Feb. 14)
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