Iranian reformists have clashed with police after the funeral of a dissident cleric, opposition websites say.Earlier, tens of thousands took part in a procession for Grand Ayatollah Hoseyn Ali Montazeri in the holy city of Qom. Clashes reportedly broke out, but the scale of the confrontation is not clear, says a BBC correspondent. Montazeri - who died aged 87 of natural causes in Qom on Saturday night - had decried President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election in June as a fraud. The reformist Jaras website said mourners chanted slogans in support of the cleric and also of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi.
Iranian reformists have clashed with police after the funeral of a dissident cleric, opposition websites say.
Earlier, tens of thousands took part in a procession for Grand Ayatollah Hoseyn Ali Montazeri in the holy city of Qom.
Clashes reportedly broke out, but the scale of the confrontation is not clear, says a BBC correspondent.
Montazeri - who died aged 87 of natural causes in Qom on Saturday night - had decried President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election in June as a fraud.
The reformist Jaras website said mourners chanted slogans in support of the cleric and also of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi.
Stick a fork in him. Ahmadinejad's done. The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman
Ahmadinejhad may not be intelligent, but has the bakcing of the real power brokers in Iran. If he goes down, they might as well. keep to the Fen Causeway
