Iranian Opposition attacked the car shot

Armored car one of the Iranian opposition leader, Mehdi Karroubi, was attacked by gunfire in the city of Qazvin, northern Iran, according to a news site reported his party, Friday, but only the glass is broken.

Karroubi was in town to show mourning for the dead opposition protesters organized by a former reformist member of parliament, said Sahamnews.org site.

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"About 500 basiji (members of the Basij Islamic militia) and the nearby villagers surrounded the house where he was and attacked the building with stones, breaking windows," he said.

After four hours, police riot finally intervened to remove from the building Karroubi.

"When the car moves away, the vehicle was attacked and hit by gunfire. However, because the armored car, only the windows broken," says the site.

There are no immediate statement from the government about the incident.

News site that quoted Karroubi said, the guards did not respond to shooting.

"My guards did not respond to shooting because they will be brought to court and face charges, unlike the attacker's assault," said Karroubi.

Attackers shouting slogans supporting the Islamic government and the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, according to the news site.

Rajanews.com conservative sites close to the government confirmed that the group attacked the vehicle of mass Karroubi stone throwers but did not mention the shooting.

According to the site, the police tried several times to open the way for the car Karroubi, who pelted stones, eggs and tomatoes.

"The mass of angry shouting` Death to Karroubi! Death for Mousavi! Death to Khatami! `," He said.

Karroubi, former chairman of the reformist-leaning parliament, and Mir Hossein Mousavi are two declared presidential candidates who lost in elections last June. The two leaders were still insisting that the election was rigged to put more Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to power.

The former reformist president Mohammad Khatami was the main supporter in the election Mousavi.

Large protests raged since the election and a large number of people arrested.

More than 100 senior reformists, activists, journalists and others who were arrested after the June elections were reportedly still inside the prison and some have been tried on charges of stirring unrest in the streets. The opposition denounced the trial.

Including those on trial are employees of the British embassy and the French and a French woman who became a university teaching assistant.

So far a number of people sentenced to death and dozens of people were sentenced to 15 years in prison.

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei criticized the post-election protests and give unconditional support to Mr Ahmadinejad and announced that the election was legitimate, although many parties in question.

Hardline faction in Iran has accused the opposition supporters, who descended into the streets to protest Ahmadinejad's re-election as president, supported and directed by the Western powers, particularly the U.S. and the UK.

World leaders voiced increasing concern over the riots, which had shaken the pillars of Islamic government and raised fears about the future of the country's Shia Muslim, the fourth largest oil producer of the world.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has led Iran to the clash with the West during the first four years of his power with slogans of anti-Israel and attitude of defiance regarding his country's nuclear program, declared the winner by getting 63% of the vote in these elections.

The Iranian leader condemns "interference" of Western countries, especially the U.S. and the UK, and accused the foreign media, which has faced strict restrictions on their work, have been fueling the unrest in Iran.

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