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Huge street demonstrations in Iran have been reduced to only die-hard protesters. Those who tried to gather Wednesday were violently dispersed by security forces.

State-run television says more than 600 people have been arrested since the disputed June 12th presidential election.

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Around the Arab world, reactions to the Iranian election have ranged from street demonstrations to Internet protests.

But Arab leaders, many of whom are wary of the regime of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, have either remained silent or embraced his re-election as legitimate.

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Iran's Guardian Council, the body that is dominated by clerics and oversees elections, has announced the disputed presidential election will not be annulled.

At the same time, Iran's Revolutionary Guard says it will crush any street demonstrations called to protest the election.

On Monday, a few hundred people tried to mount a protest but police quickly dispersed them.

President Obama has chosen his words carefully in reacting to the massive street demonstrations and violence that have taken place in Iran since last week's disputed presidential election.

He's walking a fine line — condemning the crackdown but not declaring the election illegitimate. Republicans in Congress say a more forceful reaction is warranted.

Tehran is bracing for more demonstrations after hundreds of thousands of marchers took to the streets to protest agast the official results of last week's presidential elections.

Many in the crowd recalled the street demonstrations of 1978, which eventually forced the Shah of Iran to abdicate in favor of what became the Islamic revolution.