Psycho4Bud
10-09-2007, 04:11 PM
TEHRAN, Oct. 8 ?? For the second time in less than a year, university students in Tehran mounted a protest against a speech by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. More than 100 students clashed with supporters of Mr. Ahmadinejad on Monday at Tehran University, where he was speaking to mark the beginning of the school year.
Mr. Ahmadinejad angered students and professors at the university after his election in 2005 when he appointed a cleric as the university??s president. Many liberal professors and students have been dismissed since then, and activists have come under increasing pressure.
??Death to the dictator,? and ??Free jailed students,? shouted the protesters, referring to three student activists who have been jailed since May, said witnesses who asked not to be identified out of fear of repercussions.
??It is more than four months since three students have been jailed and are under the worst kind of physical and psychological torture,? said Mohsen Seyedin, a student activist, according to the Web site for Amir Kabir University in Tehran. Pro-democracy students there had protested during a speech by the president in December. ??Mr. Ahmadinejad must answer why they should pay this price for criticizing him,? he said.
Students at Tehran University said only the most ardent supporters of the president were allowed to be present for the speech.
Students in Iran Protest President - New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/09/world/middleeast/09iran.html?em&ex=1191988800&en=81def28e4222cc69&ei=5087%0A)
Amazing......he gets a warmer welcome in the states than in Iran.
Have a good one!:s4:
Mr. Ahmadinejad angered students and professors at the university after his election in 2005 when he appointed a cleric as the university??s president. Many liberal professors and students have been dismissed since then, and activists have come under increasing pressure.
??Death to the dictator,? and ??Free jailed students,? shouted the protesters, referring to three student activists who have been jailed since May, said witnesses who asked not to be identified out of fear of repercussions.
??It is more than four months since three students have been jailed and are under the worst kind of physical and psychological torture,? said Mohsen Seyedin, a student activist, according to the Web site for Amir Kabir University in Tehran. Pro-democracy students there had protested during a speech by the president in December. ??Mr. Ahmadinejad must answer why they should pay this price for criticizing him,? he said.
Students at Tehran University said only the most ardent supporters of the president were allowed to be present for the speech.
Students in Iran Protest President - New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/09/world/middleeast/09iran.html?em&ex=1191988800&en=81def28e4222cc69&ei=5087%0A)
Amazing......he gets a warmer welcome in the states than in Iran.
Have a good one!:s4: