Iranian riot police are seen on a street of Tehran in June 2009 (AFP Photo/STR)/ Tehran (AFP) - Iranian police said Tuesday the number of security officers killed in overnight protests by a Sufi sect had risen to five, with around 300 people arrested. The demonstrations by the Gonabadi Sufi ...
Iranian officials said Tuesday at least five members of the country’s security forces were killed and more than 300 people arrested during overnight clashes between Sufi protesters and police in the capital, Tehran. Monday’s protests in front of a police station in northern Tehran were held by ...
TEHRAN — Three Iranian police officers and two paramilitary troops were killed overnight during clashes with members of a Sufi Islam order in Tehran, Iranian news outlets reported on Tuesday, the most casualties the security forces have suffered in one evening since the height of antigovernment ...
Five members of security forces are reported killed; sect members known as dervishes had staged sit-in outside police post/ Police in Tehran arrested hundreds of protesters after five security personnel were killed in confrontations with members of a mystical Islamic sect, the latest sign of ...
Five members of Iranian security forces were killed in Tehran on Monday night in clashes with protesters from a religious order, 300 of whom were arrested, the police said. Members of the Gonabadi Dervishes, who follow the mystical Sufi strain of Islam, considered a threat by the theocratic ...
These are external links and will open in a new window/ Clashes took place outside a Tehran police station between Iranian police and members of the Dervish minority Three Iranian police officers have been killed in clashes with members of a Sufi Muslim religious community, police say. A protest ...
Iranian authorities say three police officers have been killed in clashes with followers of a Sufi Muslim religious community in Tehran. Official media quoted police spokesman Saeed Montazer al-Mahdi as saying on February 19 that the police officers were "martyred in the street in a vicious ...
Three police officers were killed in Tehran on Monday, a police spokesman said, as clashes broke out with members of a Muslim religious order seen as a threat to the Shi‘ite theocratic establishment. Video footage posted on social media on Monday evening showed clashes between security forces ...
People are affected by tear gas fired by anti-riot Iranian police to disperse demonstrators in a protest over Iran's weak economy, in Tehran, Iran. (AP)/ Three police officers were killed on Monday in clashes with protesters in northern Tehran, police spokesman Saeed Montazer al-Mahdi said on ...
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