According to an Iranian opposition Web site, members of the Basij militia, which supports Iran’s government, attacked the office of a senior reformist cleric in Iran’s holy city of Qum on Tuesday, one day after a funeral for another dissident cleric there turned into an opposition protest.
Citing a report on the Web site Norooz News, Reuters and AFP said that militia members broke the windows of Grand Ayatollah Youssef Sanei’s office and beat up some of his associates.
Two days after June’s disputed presidential election, another opposition Web site, Peykeiran, reported that Ayatollah Sanei had issued a religious edict proclaiming that Mr. Ahmedinejad was “not the president” of Iran and that “it is forbidden to cooperate with his government.”
Following the death of Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri this week, Ayatollah Sanei is the most senior cleric among Iran’s reformers. During Monday’s funeral for Ayatollah Montazeri, Reuters reported that some mourners carried photographs of Ayatollah Sanei, who was among the mourners.
The Norooz News report also said that the attackers posted photographs of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, in the reformist cleric’s office. According to Norooz, police officers stopped supporters of Ayatollah Sanei from defending the office...
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