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Eight die in Iranian border riot
Dan De Luce, Tehran Monday August 18, 2003 The Guardian Eight people were killed and dozens injured in riots in central Iran on Saturday, which the state media said were caused by a dispute about a proposed new boundary which would put parts of the city of Semirom under the municipal control of a neighbouring city, Shahreza. Last night, an interior ministry official in Isfahan said the proposal had been rescinded. Yesterday, television showed the streets of Semirom, in Isfahan province, south of Tehran, littered with stones and broken glass. State broadcasting organisations reported that eight people had been killed, two of them policemen. An undisclosed number of people were arrested. The protesters pelted the governor's office with firecrackers and smashed the building's doors and windows, the Baztab website reported. Keramatollah Ebadi, a local conservative MP aligned with the conservatives opposed to President Mohammad Khatami's reformist government, told the Guardian: "At first it was a peaceful protest,but at the end anti-revolutionary people got involved and it turned violent." He accused the interior ministry of mismanagement. There has been increasing tension in provincial capitals, where the interior ministry accuses conservative clergy of illegally interfering in next year's parliamentary elections. Special reports Iran Iraq Israel and the Middle East Saudi Arabia World news guide Iran Printable version | Send it to a friend | Save story  | |||||||||||
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