
Associated Press reported on Nov. 12, that dozens of people were injured and arrested Sunday when the police, paramilitaries and special forces stormed the lodge of the Sufis… witnesses said.
Authorities seized the lodge and set fire to Sufis’ belongings, according to a student who said he witnessed the clash, and spoke on condition of anonymity because of the issue’s sensitivity. The student, who is not a Sufi, said Iranian special forces were involved in the fighting along with police and the paramilitary unit, known as the Basij.
“Sufis resisted and pelted Basij members with bricks and stones,” injuring some 50 member of the paramilitary group after they tried to enter the lodge along with police…
Some 100 Sufis were injured and another 500 arrested “after an unidentified group captured the lodge, setting fire to it and flattening it by bulldozer.”
Mehr reported that six Basijs were injured during the clashes in Boroujerd, a city of 230,000 some 300 miles southwest of the capital, Tehran.