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Iran arrests worker who threw shoes at Ahmadinejad
Dec 19, 2011, 13:51 GMT
Tehran - Police arrested a textile worker who last week threw his shoes at President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's general prosecutor said Monday.
The man, a laid-off worker at a textile factory in northern Iran, threw his shoes at the president as he was giving a speech to workers during a visit to the provincial capital of Sari.
It was not known what had happened to the man but prosecutor Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei was Monday quoted by the ISNA news agency as saying that the man was arrested immediately after the incident.
He did not say whether the worker was still in jail.
According to reports on opposition websites, Ahmadinejad was interrupted by other angry laid-off workers at the Mazandaran factory, one of the biggest in Iran, several times during his speech.
State-run Iranian media rarely report humiliations suffered by regime figures.
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