Iranian Woman Set Herself Ablaze in London Protesting French Raid

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Iranian Woman Set Herself Ablaze in London Protesting French Raid

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An Iranian woman poured gasoline on herself and set herself on fire outside the French Embassy in London on Wednesday evening, in fierce protest against France's raid on Iranian dissidents, police said.

The woman, identified as Meda Hassani in her twenties, was thought not part of any demonstration when a policeman found her, local reports quoted a police spokesman as saying, adding that hercondition was "serious but not life threatening."

Her action came after several earlier self-immolations by Iranian dissidents in France and another similar move in London onTuesday by a 38-year-old Iranian man whose injuries were also called serious but not life-threatening.

Early on Tuesday morning, French anti-terror police stormed homes and offices of the Iranian opposition People's Mujahideen, which was listed by the European Union as one of the banned "terrorist" organizations in May 2002.

More than 150 People's Mujahideen sympathizers were arrested inthe raid.

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