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FILE – In this June 15, 2009 file photo, a demonstrator wears a mask in the party’s color of green, due to fears of being identified, as hundreds of thousands of supporters of leading opposition presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, who claims there was voting fraud in election, turn out to protest the result of the election at a mass rally in Azadi (Freedom) square in Tehran, Iran. Despite four years of non-stop arrests and intimidation, Iran’s dissidents still find ways to show their resilience. Protest messages ricochet around social media and angry graffiti pops up. But it only takes a closer look at the lockdown atmosphere across Iran ahead of Friday’s presidential election to show how much the organized opposition has fallen since massive protests in 2009. ( AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)