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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Iran forces clash with cleric's mourners Reuters - Thursday, December 24 Send IM Story Print By Parisa Hafezi and Fredrik Dahl TEHRAN - Iranian security forces armed with batons and tear gas clashed with supporters of the late dissident cleric Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri in two cities on Wednesday, opposition websites said. But a senior local official denied reports of clashes in Isfahan, accusing foreign media of "staging a psychological war" against the clerical establishment by publishing such reports. "A small group of people who gathered in Isfahan were dispersed by ordinary Iranians. Security forces did not clash with people," said Mohammad Mehdi Esmaili, deputy governor of Isfahan province, the official IRNA news agency reported. One opposition website said tear gas and pepper gas were used against people gathering for a Montazeri memorial service planned in a mosque in the city of Isfahan, while another said women and children were among those beaten up. Some opposition supporters were injured and dozens were arrested, according to reformist websites, whose reports could not be independently verified. If confirmed, they highlight mounting tension in the major oil producer, six months after a disputed presidential election plunged the Islamic Republic into its deepest internal crisis since it was founded three decades ago. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, asked in an interview with Channel Four News about reports of the clashes, said some people might have broken the law, "they may have participated in illegal demonstrations ... the law will certainly investigate." Asked about the expulsion of some foreign journalists, he said the people of Iran were united and would certainly defend rights and interests. "There are different views that exist in this country ... but the majority of the nation is united." Police chief Esmail Ahmadi-Moqadam warned the pro-reform opposition of "fierce" confrontation if it continued its "illegal" activities, the semi-official Fars news agency said. Reformist former president Mohammad Khatami condemned the violence in Isfahan, the reformist Parlemannews website said. "Imam Khomeini believed that the Islamic Republic was based on two pillars -- freedom and independence. If these pillars become shaky ... we will have tyranny again," Khatami said. The Jaras website said many demonstrators were hurt during the clashes in Isfahan on the traditional third day of mourning for Montazeri, who died on Saturday aged 87 in the holy Shi'ite Muslim city of Qom. "Police fired tear gas to disperse people ... many people were injured ... some arrested," Jaras said. Parlemannews said at least 50 opposition supporters, including four journalists, were arrested in Isfahan, one of Iran's biggest and most historic cities. But the local official, Esmaili, rejected the report. "The reports published by the foreign media on arrests of protesters in Isfahan are baseless," IRNA quoted him as saying. The website said plainclothes agents used pepper gas on a cleric named Adib, who it said was an ally of opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi and who was supposed to deliver the memorial service sermon, and arrested him beside the Seyed mosque. Security forces surrounded the mosque to stop people entering, the Rah-e Sabz website said. "Montazeri mourners shouted slogans against the top authorities," it said. "They are beating protesters, including women and children, with batons, chains and stones." The reported incidents took place two days after big crowds turned out in Qom for the funeral of Montazeri, many of them chanting anti-government slogans, websites said. Montazeri, an architect of the 1979 Islamic revolution and a spiritual patron of the opposition, was a fierce critic of the hardline clerical establishment and denounced President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election in June as fraudulent. He died in the run-up to Ashura on December 27, a politically important Shi'ite religious commemoration that offers the opposition another chance to show its strength. "HYPOCRITES" Ahmadinejad's re-election, in a vote the opposition says was rigged, kindled the biggest unrest in Iran's 30-year history and split the political and clerical establishment. The authorities deny poll rigging charges and have portrayed the huge opposition protests that erupted after the election as a foreign-backed bid to topple the Islamic establishment. Despite scores of arrests and security crackdowns, opposition protests have repeatedly flared up since the vote. Referring to the city where Montazeri was born, Jaras said: "Sporadic clashes started from Tuesday night in Najafabad and still continued. The situation is tense in the city. People are chanting anti-government slogans." In nearby Isfahan, it said plainclothes security agents surrounded the house of a leading pro-reform cleric, Ayatollah Jalaleddin Taheri, who had called on people to attend the memorial service for Montazeri. "I tried six different ways to get to the mosque but they were all blocked," Parlemannews quoted him as saying. Police sealed off streets in the area where the clashes took place and motorists honked horns to protest against the security forces' treatment of demonstrators, Jaras said. The opposition reports from Isfahan and Najafabad could not be confirmed independently because foreign media are banned from reporting directly on protests. Government supporters staged counter rallies in Qom on Tuesday and Wednesday, condemning "the insult against sanctities" during Montazeri's funeral, official media reported. "This is the last time that something like that will happen in Qom. This is not a place for hypocrites," Grand Ayatollah Hossein Nouri Hamedani told the crowd, state television said. Iran's internal unrest has complicated the dispute over the Iranian nuclear programme, which the West believes may have military ends, not just civilian purposes as Iran maintains. Montazeri played an important part in the 1979 revolution that overthrew the U.S.-backed shah and was once named to succeed Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini as supreme leader. But he fell from grace after criticising the mass execution of prisoners in the late 1980s. 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