CNN 2009-06-22

CNN 06-22    SEEYOU8286

Special coverage¹ of Iran and the fallout continues right now. It's a lot of wait and see. What's next, what's going to happen next, what's going to happen in the streets, what's going to happen but you know what, behind the scenes, what's the clergy² and those running the country, but this is what we have been seeing. Video, amateur video that's been coming to us because of the crackdown on the foreign press. We know at least 19 people were killed in yesterday's clashes between protestors and armed security forces, that 19, that number comes to us from sources we have at hospitals there in Iran.

 And those forces that we have been talking about, there is armed forces include the Basij which is a feared pro-government militia³. One witness told us the situation is very dangerous, and that the Iranian government is still enforcing an international media blackout we know that, this is very evident, because we cannot even bring our own pictures or our own reports out of Iran. So much of the information and video that were going to be passing along to you is indeed coming from citizens, citizen journalist inside Iran. Many of whom are taking great risk to not only take part in those protests but send us those images and those pictures.

 We do have some graphic⁴ video though, that we have to bring to you right now. some of the videos are just so bad that, we do have to blur⁵ it out. And we wanna give you a warning it shows a woman bleeding on the streets of Tehran, and no one sure of her real name. she's been referred to on Twitter just as Neda, so, take a look again, this is a very graphic video posted online Saturday. A blogger claimed the young woman was protesting with her father when the pro-government militia shot her in the heart. These pictures have been on Twitter and that people are just buzzing in the blog's affair about it this weekend and there's so much interest that a discussion group is up and focused on Neda.

Let's take a listen to this chilling sound late at night in Tehran Saturday night. That is the sound of what appears to be a home invasion. Security forces attacking apartment buildings in Tehran. We have heard about that happening throughout the week that at night they go in, they break apart homes and cars and detain people. When you hear people screaming, they are coming on the balcony. They are coming in the terrorist. Go away, go away. Terrifying stuff there. Despite these threats throughout the night, we got reports that protesters were screaming along walk bar "God is great from the roof tops", a show of defiance⁶ against the Iranian regime. I got an email from a protestor just about an hour ago, he said he was doing that, and somebody fired back at him but they kept yelling along walk bar, somebody is firing gunshot in retaliation⁷. And he said he's gonna go on and hold protests, try to hold protests today this afternoon and then again on Monday, a morning demonstration⁸.

1 coverage   

n.报导，保险范围，保险额，范围，覆盖

参考例句：

• There's little coverage of foreign news in the newspaper.报纸上几乎没有国外新闻报道。
• This is an insurance policy with extensive coverage.这是一项承保范围广泛的保险。

2 clergy   

n.[总称]牧师，神职人员

参考例句：

• I could heartily wish that more of our country clergy would follow this example.我衷心希望，我国有更多的牧师效法这个榜样。
• All the local clergy attended the ceremony.当地所有的牧师出席了仪式。

3 militia   

n.民兵，民兵组织

参考例句：

• First came the PLA men,then the people's militia.人民解放军走在前面，其次是民兵。
• There's a building guarded by the local militia at the corner of the street.街道拐角处有一幢由当地民兵团守卫的大楼。

4 graphic   

adj.生动的，形象的，绘画的，文字的，图表的

参考例句：

• The book gave a graphic description of the war.这本书生动地描述了战争的情况。
• Distinguish important text items in lists with graphic icons.用图标来区分重要的文本项。

5 blur   

n.模糊不清的事物；vt.使模糊，使看不清楚

参考例句：

• The houses appeared as a blur in the mist.房子在薄雾中隐隐约约看不清。
• If you move your eyes and your head,the picture will blur.如果你的眼睛或头动了，图像就会变得模糊不清。

6 defiance   

n.挑战，挑衅，蔑视，违抗

参考例句：

• He climbed the ladder in defiance of the warning.他无视警告爬上了那架梯子。
• He slammed the door in a spirit of defiance.他以挑衅性的态度把门砰地一下关上。

7 retaliation   

n.报复，反击

参考例句：

• retaliation against UN workers 对联合国工作人员的报复
• He never said a single word in retaliation. 他从未说过一句反击的话。 来自《简明英汉词典》

8 demonstration   

n.表明，示范，论证，示威

参考例句：

• His new book is a demonstration of his patriotism.他写的新书是他的爱国精神的证明。
• He gave a demonstration of the new technique then and there.他当场表演了这种新的操作方法。