Iran: Three police officers die in clashes with dervishes
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 by dervishes at a police station in northern Tehran turned violent when the policemen were hit and killed by a bus. Rights groups say Sufi dervishes have faced persecution in Iran. One Iranian news agency described the incident as "deadly and ...
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