Throngs of Mourners Attend Funeral of Iran’s Dissident Ayatollah – NYTimes.com

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The funeral of a founding father of Iran’s Islamic revolution now embraced as the spiritual leader of the reform movement became a vast opposition protest on Monday, as mourners flooded the holy city of Qum and faced off with Iranian security forces and the volunteer Basij militia.

via Throngs of Mourners Attend Funeral of Iran’s Dissident Ayatollah – NYTimes.com.

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