5 Security Officers in Iran Killed in Clashes with Dervishes

NY Times

5 Security Officers in Iran Killed in Clashes with Dervishes

NY Times

5 Security Officers in Iran Killed in Clashes with Dervishes

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 demonstrations in 2009. State news media reported that the police arrested more than 300 protesters, most of them members of the , a mystical Sufi strain of Islam that the clerical government has designated a challenge to mainstream Shiite theology. ...

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