BBC News with David Legge

There have been violent clashes between protesters and the police in the Iranian capital Tehran as anti-government rallies were held in several different locations across the city. An Iranian news agency is reporting that one person was shot dead. Thousands of demonstrators took part in the protests, which were

in part

held to show solidarity with recent demonstrations in Tunisia and Egypt. Dozens of opposition supporters have been arrested, and electricity and mobile phone services have been

cut off

in central Tehran. Mohsen Asgari is a BBC employee in Tehran.

We can see hundreds of anti-riot police and security forces, and then they started to

disperse

the people by force, but people started to chanting slogans against the police. I could see a lot of clashes, severe clashes. Police started to launch tear gases and pepper gases. I myself was affected seriously.

Egypt has been hit by a wave of strikes and

renew

ed protests, despite calls by the military authorities for a return to normality. In Tahrir Square in Cairo, crowds of new protesters

thwart

ed attempts to remove the remaining anti-government demonstrators. Wyre Davies reports from Cairo.

Political reform may be coming in Egypt with the promise of free and fair elections, but there's realisation that economic reform may take much longer. In another televised address, the interim ruling military council