Service for cleric sparks Iran crackdown
Posted: December 24, 2009 at 5:36 a.m.
Security forces and hard-line militiamen assaulted opposition protesters, beating men and women and firing tear gas, as thousands gathered in a central Iranian city for a memorial commemorating the country’s most senior dissident cleric, who died this week.
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