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Five security officers have been killed and 300 people arrested amid clashes between law enforcement authorities and Sufi Muslim protesters in Tehran, police say.

The protest by members of the Gonabadi Sufi order, who are known as dervishes, erupted into clashes with security forces in northern Tehran on February 19.

The Gonabadis were protesting outside a police station against the arrest of members of the religious community, according to accounts posted on social media.

Footage circulating on social media and broadcast by state television showed a bus plowing into a group of police officers in northern Tehran, an incident that police initially said left three officers dead.

On February 20, police spokesman Saeed Montazer Almehdi said two members of the paramilitary Basij force, which is linked to the hard-line conservative Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), were also killed.

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