Police at the scene in central Tehran prevented the demonstrators from gathering outside the offices of the Etemad-e Melli newspaper of leading reformist Mehdi Karoubi, the witness said.
"They tried to gather in front of the building but police did not let them and asked them to leave," the witness told Reuters, declining to be named.
"While leaving they started to chant 'death to the dictator'. When police followed them, they started to run," the witness added, estimating the number of demonstrators at up to 60.
Karoubi, a cleric, came fourth in the disputed June 12 presidential election. He and the moderate runner-up, Mirhossein Mousavi, say the vote was rigged to secure hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election. Ahmadinejad denies it.
The website of Karoubi's party, which is also called Etemad-e Melli (National Trust), said the newspaper was closed down late on Sunday on the orders of the prosecutor's office.
The newspaper's managing editor, Mohammad-Javad Haqshenas, said he did not know whether it could be published again on Tuesday.
Tehran prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi denied Etemad-e Melli had been banned, saying technical problems had prevented it from being published on Monday, the semi-official Mehr News Agency reported.
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