{"id":2691,"date":"2009-12-21T18:37:18","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T16:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=2691"},"modified":"2009-12-21T18:47:55","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T16:47:55","slug":"massive-protests-during-clerics-funeral-in-iran-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/massive-protests-during-clerics-funeral-in-iran-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive protests during clerics funeral in Iran &#8211; video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2692\" title=\"Ayatollah\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Ayatollah-172x120-custom.jpg\" alt=\"Ayatollah\" width=\"172\" height=\"120\" \/>Witnesses say security forces are clamping down in Iran&#8217;s holy city of Qom (KOHM), where massive crowds have turned out for the funeral of the country&#8217;s most senior dissident cleric.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri died yesterday at age 87. He had denounced as &#8220;despotic&#8221; the government crackdown on protests following the disputed June presidential election. Today, many of the mourners have been chanting protest slogans and &#8220;death to the dictator.&#8221;<\/p>\n[media id=65 width=610 height=340]\n<p>Tens of thousands took part in a procession for Grand Ayatollah Hoseyn Ali Montazeri in the holy city of Qom.<\/p>\n<p>Ayatollah Montazeri, who was 87, had denounced President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad&#8217;s re-election as a fraud.<\/p>\n<p>The reformist Jaras website said mourners chanted slogans in support of the grand ayatollah and also of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi.<\/p>\n[media id=64 width=610 height=340]\n<p>Opposition website Kaleme.org said that following the funeral, some mourners threw stones at police surrounding the grand ayatollah&#8217;s house and clashes with security forces followed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Witnesses say security forces are clamping down in Iran&#8217;s holy city of Qom (KOHM), where massive crowds have turned out for the funeral of the country&#8217;s most senior dissident cleric.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,118,37,101,14],"tags":[3589,3588,3590,3586,3587],"class_list":["post-2691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-hot","category-middle-east","category-politics","category-world","tag-ayatollah-denounced-ahmadinejad","tag-grand-ayatollah-hossein-ali-montazeri","tag-iran-protesters-in-ayatollah-funeral","tag-iran-protests","tag-iran-protests-cleric"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}