Iran dissident's funeral turns into anti-government protest
Tens of thousands have attended the funeral of a senior dissident cleric, in what became Iran's biggest anti-government protest for years, BBC reported.
Ayatollah Jalaluddin Taheri died at the age of 87 on Sunday in Isfahan.
He was a vocal opponent of the hardliners in power in Iran and had resigned from his post in protest.
Protesters called for the release of all political prisoners, including the two top leaders of the reformist green movement who are under house arrest in Tehran.
Ayatollah Taheri was a pro-reformist Friday prayer leader in Isfahan, one of the largest cities in Iran.
It is the biggest such protest in Iran in the past few years, and interestingly the police did not intervene, says Kasra Naji of BBC Persian.