A couple of miles away on Jomhouri Eslami Avenue, another major downtown business center, protesters tore down metal fences to close off roads amid billowing smoke.Posting videos from street markets, hard-line Tasnim News downplayed the strikes as a failed effort by foreign-based “terrorist media.”Still, dozens of videos trickled out from almost all major cities including Isfahan, Shiraz, Mashhad, Kermanshah and Sanandaj, where shops' metal curtains were rolled down on blocked streets where protesters continued chanting against the government.Massive crowds filled the campus of Shahid Beheshti University and there were violent scuffles between protesting students and Basij paramilitary forces at the prestigious Amir Kabir University of Technology.He did not elaborate on the nature of the exercises by his organization, whose plainclothes members are heavily engaged in the ongoing crackdown.“The enemy possesses abundant tools and provisions there … and the Basij has a long way ahead before shaping popular, integrated networks across cyberspace.”"