4 injured and 1 arrested after clashes between supporters and opponents of the Iranian government in London

LONDON — British police say four people were injured and one was arrested when supporters of Iranian authorities clashed with anti-government protesters at an event in London marking the death of President Ebrahim Raisi.

The Metropolitan Police said officers were called on Friday evening to “reports of a disturbance” at a venue in the Wembley area, west London, where an event was being held to mark Raisi's death in a helicopter accident. Protesters gathered outside the scene and clashes broke out, police said.

The force said one person was arrested on suspicion of violent disorder. Four people were treated by paramedics for injuries not believed to be life-threatening or life-changing.

Police ordered those gathered to disperse and said on Saturday that detectives would review social media footage and other evidence to see if any further offenses had been committed.

Raisi, a pillar of Iran's hardline Islamic regime, died Sunday alongside the country's foreign minister and six others in an accident in the country's mountainous northwest. He was buried Thursday at Iran's holiest Shiite shrine.

Some Iranian expatriates welcomed Raisi's death. London is home to a large Iranian community, most of whom left the country in the years following the 1979 Islamic Revolution.