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Clashes erupted between rival groups in Iran

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2011-02-16 16:38

TEHRAN - Clashes took place on Wednesday between students supporting the government and supporters of Iran' s opposition in Tehran university at the funeral of Iran's Monday protest victim, the state IRIB website reported.

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"The students and people attending the funeral ceremony of Shahid (martyr) Sane' Zhaleh in Tehran Fine Arts University clashed with a few who were apparently from the sedition movement, " the report said.

Supporters of the government forced them out of the scene by " chanting the slogan of death to Monafegh (hypocrite)," referring to the dissident Paris-based People's Mujahedeen of Iran (PMOI), said the report.