Iranian students were commemorating three scholars who were killed by Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi's security forces on Dec 7, 1953, as they protested the ouster of Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh. Opposition websites announced plans to hold rallies this year to reinvigorate protests prompted by Iranian officials said 36 people were killed in the clashes that followed the election, while the opposition put the toll at 72 and said some of the deaths were the result of beatings during detention.