The Latest from Iran (15 June): Two Years Ago Today, There Were Millions

2040 GMT: Political Prisoner Watch. Prominent reformist Mostafa Tajzadeh, imprisoned for most of the period since June 2009, has been given a three-day leave.

2015 GMT: Al Jazeera English's coverage of the Iranian regime's announcement of an enhanced "moral police" (see Tuesday's LiveBlog) to enforce proper dress and behaviour:

2000 GMT:President Ahmadinejad presents himself to an audience of Iranians in Kazakhstan:

1830 GMT: Opposition Watch. Writing at The Huffington Post, Setareh Sabety issues a "Call for a Council of All [Iranian] Opposition Leaders".

The Council would "draft a broad set of goals that we all agree on and put it to vote. This could be like a bill of rights that includes such easily accepted civil liberties as free speech and free assembly." It would "agree on a general strategy to keep a consistent voice of opposition in the international community that expresses our opposition in unison".

Sabety concludes, "Truth and reconciliation should be our maxim."

1700 GMT: Deaths and Enquiries. Haj Seyed Javadi of the National Religious Coalition has asked Grand Ayatollahs to respond to the deaths of political prisoners, holding the system liable for the recent demise of activists Haleh Sahabi and Hoda Saber.

1640 GMT: Oil and Politics. Tehran Prosecutor General Abbas Jafari Doulatabadi said today that six oil industry managers were arrested two weeks ago in a case that "could have international aspects".

Doulatabadi said the six were released on bail after 48 hours and the cases of other officials are under investigation.

1615 GMT: Press Watch. Hamid Rasaei is not taking the ban on his pro-Ahmadinejad publication 9 Dey very well. Having gotten into trouble over a cartoon of Mohammad Khatami, Rasaei is suggesting that the former President should be defrocked as a cleric.

1605 GMT: The Battle Within. Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi, speaking in Qom, has cautioned, "Don't believe that we who wear the turban for several years have escaped the danger --- a front against Islam and Shiites has been established."

1405 GMT: The Battle Within. Former President Hashemi Rafsanjani has met Mohammad Nabi Habibi, the head of the conservative Motalefeh Party, to discuss the political situation. The striking statement from the discussion is that both "sedition 88" (the post-election protests in 2009) and the "deviant current" (advisors to President Ahmadinejad) are named as threats to "eliminate the Islamic system".

1255 GMT: Parliament v. President. Mardomak reports that President Ahmadinejad and Speaker of Parliament Ali Larijani will meet in an attempt to resolve the ongoing dispute over merger of ministries.

After weeks of criticism of Ahmadinejad for his plans --- allegedly without consultation with Parliament --- to merge eight Iranian ministries into four, Parliament last weekend passed a measure to delay the mergers for three years, after the end of the President's term.

1225 GMT: Poltical Prisoner Watch. The Supreme Court has overturned the Appeals Court's six-month sentence on Tabriz Azad University student Fatemeh Nasirpour.

1205 GMT: All-is-Well Alert. Speaking in Kazakhstan, President Ahmadinejad has declared that not a single Iranian is poor, not a single Iranian is in need of bread.

Earlier this week, Tehran Mayor Mohammad-Baqer Qalibaf said that residents in some parts of the capital could not afford to buy bread.

1150 GMT: Political Prisoner Watch (Saber Edition). An account of the burial of journalist Hoda Saber, who died last weekend after a hunger strike in prison, claims that even the gravedigger was a member of the security forces. It asserts that Saber's family and mourners were attacked during the ceremony.

1145 GMT: Religion and Dissent. Grand Ayatollahs Safi Golpayegani, Nouri Hamedani, Alavi Gorgani, and Hosseini Zanjani have declared that writing on banknotes is "religiously problematic".

Perhaps the most interesting feature of the ruling, an EA correspondent notes, is that it tacitly admits that "Green" dissent through the writing on currency continues, more than two years after the Presidential election.

1135 GMT: Foreign Affairs (Syria Front). Raja News explains why the Islamic Republic is not supporting US- and Saudi-led "fitna" (sedition) in Syria: many people believe Syrian President Assad is the most popular Arab leader.

1025 GMT: Great Minds Think Alike. EA, 14 June: "A video summary of President Ahmadinejad's opening activities in Kazakhstan, where the meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization is being held. For those going beyond formalities to concentrate on Iranian politics, there is another task: can the President's right-hand man, Esfandiar Rahim-Mashai, be found in the clip?"

Ayande News, 15 June, with a set of photographs: "Who is missing from these photos of Ahmadinejad in Kazakhstan?"

0958 GMT: Oil and Politics. Hamidreza Katouzian, the head of Parliament's Energy Committee, says that four different Ministers of Oil in six years is a sign of the chaos and mismanagement of the Ahmadinejad Presidency.

0955 GMT: Graffiti of the Day. "Dictator, Say Hello to the End":

0945 GMT: Parliament v. President. Ten MPs of the reformist Imam Khomeini Line have asked the Minister of Justice to investigate the reasons behind the death of journalist Hoda Saber in detention last weekend.

Saber suffered a heart attack while on hunger strike, but witnesses have claimed he was beaten and denied medical care.

Reformist MP Nasrollah Torabi has declared that the reported dismissal of Minister of Intelligence Heydar Moslehi from the Government's Money and Credit Commission breaks the law.

0940 GMT: The Anniversary. Fereshteh Ghazi speaks with families of protesters who died on 15 June 2009, hearing their complaints that two years later the murderers have not been identified.

0930 GMT: Parliament v. President (Sports Report). Reuters has a full summary of the escalating battle between Parliament and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over the nomination of a new Minister of Sport.

Ahmadinejad, who has held out against the merger of the Ministry with the Ministry of Youth, angered legislators with a letter which not only introduced his nominee but declared, "The ambiguities and problems in the bill [for the merger] will not only disrupt sport affairs and create conflicts in this field but also will harm the achievements of Iranian athletes."

Parliament voted for the merger in January.

0925 GMT: What Now for the Opposition? Thomas Erdbrink at The Washington Post speaks with two artists and an analyst about opposition and social media amidst repression. The take-away paragraphs:

Jinoos, the artist, said changes are not taking place on the streets but online. She pointed to the open, heated debates on politics, relationships and other sensitive Iranian issues on social media sites. For instance, her sister, who covers herself in a shapeless chador, discovered online that three of her acquaintances were gay. Homosexuality is taboo in Iran but is increasingly accepted in urban circles.

“In real life, how would we ever have found out?” Jinoos said. Iranian culture tends to sweep secrets under Persian carpets, she said, but online realities are not as easy to ignore. Jinoos said that through the use of social media, a whole generation of plugged-in Iranians is quickly learning to deal with dialogue and other opinions and to compromise.

“We might not be organizing protests for now, but we are writing the first steps of democracy for Iran on Facebook,” she said.

0820 GMT: The Battle Within. The websites Hafte Sobh, linked to the President's right-hand man Esfandiar Rahim-Mashai, and Yekshanbeh have answered the recent criticisms of Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi, including the claim that Satan is behind the "deviant current" around Ahmadinejad.

The take-away line: Mesbah Yazdi isn't worth one rotten hair of Ahmadinejad.

The hard-line Raja News had warned on Monday, in a note to supporters of Ahmadinejad, "We have been very tolerant, but do not think you can write whatever you want."

0705 GMT: At the Movies. Digarban reports that the costly anti-Green Movement propaganda film Payan-nameh has been dropped from Iranian cinemas.

0645 GMT: The House Arrests. Yesterday Tehran Prosecutor General Abbas Ali Doulatabadi said a person who attacked the residential complex of Mehdi Karroubi last year has been imprisoned for seven months. He did not give further details.

Doulatabadi did not explain why only one person had been punished, given that Karroubi's house was besieged several times, including for almost a week on one occasion, by a pro-regime crowd that caused damage and tried to get into the opposition figure's apartment.

Nor did Doulatabadi make any comment on the strict house arrest imposed on Karroubi four months ago.

0600 GMT: Political Prisoner Watch. Three physicians who practice alternative medicien --- Drs. Vida Pirzadeh, Soushianet Azemi, and Soroush Azemikhah --- have been arrested.

Student activists Nima Pouryaghoub and Sasan Vahebivash have been detained.

0550 GMT: A flashback to open the morning --- two years ago today, we closed our LiveBlog with thoughts which both underestimated the size of the demonstration protesting the Presidential election and pointed to (accurately, I think) the long road of trouble ahead:

The end of a long and, for many, amazing day in Iran, with the hopes of the mass movement balanced by rumours of deaths, beatings, and detentions (one activist writes of many people being taken to Evin Prison). Still a state of tension, with uncertainty over casualty figures from this afternoon at Azadi Square and no firm confirmation of the big march for 5 p.m. tomorrow (local time) in Tehran. Tonight, there are sounds of ambulances and police sirens and occasional gunshots.

The elation over the success of the Tehran march, with a peaceful crowd in the hundreds of thousands, has been tempered by the shooting in Azadi Square.The firing appears to have broken out near a Basiji (paramilitary militia) headquarters.

News services are still confirming only one dead, but there are very disturbing images of dead and wounded allegedly attacked at Azadi. There is also nervousness over reports of clashes in other Iranian cities.

The high hopes over the address of Presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi to the Azadi crowd has been offset by a lull in political developments. The Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, has allowed state media to make all the noise after his letter to the Guardian Council for an enquiry into vote fraud, and President Ahmadinejad has suddenly gone noticeably (and uncharacteristically) silent.