Iran’s deputy police commander says that 400 police personnel were wounded in violence erupting after the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the Friday vote.
“Families of those killed or injured in the events since June 22 have filed 2,000 complaints so far,” Fars quoted acting Police Chief Brigadier General Ahmad-Reza Radan as saying Saturday.

He added that people have made 10,000 complaints that their daily lives have been disrupted and said, “They have called on the police to deal with rallies firmly.”

The police official said that people staged protests because they were called to take part in illegal rallies.

“The recent rallies destroyed 700 buildings, burst 300 banks into flame, damaged 300 cars and 300 public properties,” Radan said.

Meanwhile, head of Tehran Emergency Center Reza Dehqanpour said that more than 50 reserved ambulances were used to help the injured.

Opposition rallies have been held on a daily basis in Iran, since the announcement of presidential election results last Friday, in which incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was re-elected with almost two thirds of votes.

Presidential contenders Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi have rejected the result as fraudulent, demanding an annulment of the election.

On Saturday, spokesman of Iran’s Guardian Council, tasked with overseeing the electoral process, said the body is ready to recount 10 percent of random ballot boxes in last Friday’s presidential election.

“Although the Guardian Council is not legally obliged … we are ready to recount 10 percent of the (ballot) boxes randomly in the presence of representatives of the candidates,” Abbas-Ali Kadkhodaei said.

On Friday, Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei called for an end to street protests, assuring the public that the Islamic Republic has ‘by no means’ betrayed the vote of the nation.