Hizbollah disrupts service for poet

NICOSIA - Iranian Muslim militants disrupted a large memorial service held in a Tehran mosque for a left wing poet who died in…

NICOSIA - Iranian Muslim militants disrupted a large memorial service held in a Tehran mosque for a left wing poet who died in exile last week, a witness said by telephone. "The memorial for Siavash Kasraei had just started... when a group of young men burst into the mosque," an Iranian writer said.

"One of them grabbed the microphone and said the group was from the Hizbollah. He attacked Kasraei as anti Islamic and told everyone to go home," he said.

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