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(From Guardian Unlimited)
Iranian police forced opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi to leave a Tehran cemetery today where hundreds of mourners had gathered for a memorial ceremony for protestors killed after the disputed presidential election in June.
Mousavi and hundreds of his supporters was trying to reach the graveside of Neda Soltan , the young woman whose death was captured on video and became a symbol of the protest movement.
Witnesses said hundreds of police surrounded Mousavi, forcing him to leave Behesht-e Zahra cemetery on the city's southern outskirts.
The police did not disperse the hundreds of people who gathered for the memorial, …