TEHRAN (AFP) – Clashes erupted on Friday between hardliners and supporters of Iranian opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi when he visited a media exhibition in the capital, ISNA news agency reported [Watch video]. Karroubi supporters began to chant slogans in his favour when he arrived at the exhibition, but hardliners then confronted them, the report said. The cleric, who has been vocal in recent months in opposing the re-election in June of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was immediately made to leave the venue as fist-fights broke out between the two groups >>>
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