The Information and Media Head Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast added, “The Islamic Republic of Iran evaluates the uprising of the Muslim Libyan nation and their righteous demands in line with the other noble movements of the regional nations and due to Islamic awareness, pursuing that country’s developments with serious concern.”
He added, “The broadcasted news on air raids against the demonstrators and the residential areas that has led to loss of lives of the innocent people has both depressed and astonished the observers and it is expected at this point that the international organizations would adopt immediate and effective measures to halt such moves.
As determined demonstrators against Gaddafi headed to the vast, palm-tree fringed Green Square in central Tripoli on Monday, protesters talked of the gathering as the 'new Tahrir Square'.
Inspired by Egypt's revolution, they vowed to sleep out in the centre of Libyan's Mediterranean port capital there until 'the job was done' and the Libyan dictator had fled.
With the death toll estimated by Libyan rights groups to be more than 400 in five days, this seemed an almost impossibly dangerous challenge. But shocked by the scale of the violent repression of the protests, many felt they had nothing left to lose, according to exiled activists who described the scene.
With phone lines cut off all day, the internet connection patchy, and no foreign journalists allowed in, a news blackout on the ground disorientated residents who couldn't contact relatives. Reporters had to rely on accounts by human rights networks and exiled opposition activists.
But within hours, reports began to filter through about the deafening sound of military aircraft targeting demonstrators in what opposition groups warned was a 'massacre'. For the second night running, Gaddafi appeared to have deployed a shoot-to-kill policy to disperse the protests that had spread to the capital from the east of the country.
At least three people were killed in Tajura on the Tripoli's outskirts as military aircraft fired on protesters and bombed residential areas, according to one Libyan activist based in London who was in contact with Tripoli residents. Armed men in 4x4s were reportedly driving around the city amid sustained gun fire.
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