(New York Times) Nazila Fathi - Clashes erupted Wednesday in the Iranian city of Isfahan between security forces and protesters who were trying to gather at a central mosque for the third day of mourning for the death of a senior cleric, Grand Ayatollah Hussein Ali Montazeri. The police used tear gas and pepper gas to disperse the crowd and arrested dozens of people. Iranian authorities banned all memorial services for Montazeri after his funeral on Monday in Qum, where hundreds of thousands of protesters gathered and chanted antigovernment slogans.
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