Montazeri Ayatollah:

Iran police clashed with mourners who pelted them with stones and shouted anti-govt slogans after the funeral in Qom of top cleric Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri on Monday.

“According to reports security and police forces clashed with people after ayatollah Montazeri’s funeral,” Kaleme.org said.

“The police cracked down on people who were shouting slogans in front his house and people threw stones at them,” it added.

It said hundreds of hardline basij militia members and clerics also gathered near Montazeri’s house and chanted slogans in favour of Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and against the protesters.

Montazeri, an inspiration to Iran reformists and human rights activists and a fierce critic of the clerical regime he helped create, died aged 87 on Saturday.