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Funeral for Dissident Iranian Cleric Turns Into a Mass Protest

Tens of thousand streamed into the streets of Qum, Iran, to mourn Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, one of the founders of the Islamic revolution in Iran who had more recently become aligned with the reform movement sweeping the country, the New York Times reports. But as the masses -- which some Iranian sources say numbered in the hundreds of thousands -- poured into the city, they began clashing with government security and Basij military officers, turning the funeral into a mass protest.Sunday was marked by hundred of demonstrators marching at Tehran University, chanting "Montazeri is ...

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