Iranian Students Protest "Dictator" Ahmadinejad at University!
UPDATE: Video from the student protest at Tehran University:
Iran Press News Persian posted the video of the protesting youth at Tehran University today.
The students were shouting, "Death to the dictator!"
Unlike the Columbia students, the university students in Tehran were not as polite with the president of the regime.
A scene from the Tehran University campus earlier today where Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was giving a speech to students. (ISNA)
Iranian students protest against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to Tehran University October 8, 2007. More than 100 students scuffled with police and hardline supporters of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday on Tehran University campus and chanted 'Death to the dictator' outside a hall where the Iranian president spoke. (Stringer/Reuters)
Iranian Students at Tehran University lashed out at Ahmadinejad today during a speech!
The AP reported:
TEHRAN, Iran - An estimated 100 students staged a rare demonstration Monday against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, calling him a "dictator" and scuffling with hardline students at Tehran University.
Ahmadinejad, who was giving a speech to a select group at the university to mark the beginning of the academic year, ignored the chants of "death to the dictator" and continued with his speech on the merits of science and the pitfalls of Western-style democracy, witnesses said.
The protesters scuffled with hardline students who were chanting "thank you president" while police looked on from outside the university gates. The protesters dispersed after the car carrying Ahmadinejad left the campus.
Students were once the main power base of Iran's reform movement but have faced intense pressure in recent years from Ahmadinejad's hardline government, making anti-government protests rare.
The president faced a similar outburst during a speech last December when students at Amir Kabir Technical University called Ahmadinejad a dictator and set fire to his picture.
Hoping to avoid a similar disturbance Monday, organizers imposed tight security measures, checking the identity papers of all students entering the university and allowing only selected students into the hall. But the protesters were somehow able to gain entrance.
Iranian students join hands as they protest against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at Tehran University, as anti-riot police officers stand behind the gate, in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Oct. 8, 2007. (AP)
Iranian students protest against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to Tehran University October 8, 2007. More than 100 students scuffled with police and hardline supporters of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday on Tehran University campus and chanted "Death to the dictator" outside a hall where the Iranian president spoke. (REUTERS/Stringer)
Outside the university students held hands in protest against Mahmoud. (ISNA)
posted by Gateway Pundit at 10/08/2007 06:18:00 AM
4 Comments:
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dang, that sure as heck looks like a lot more than 100 students protesting.. but then again, it's an AP report..
unfortunately, 100 students or so just might disappear behind cell bars or worse w/o any report from AP..
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not "rare", mostly unreported by the MSM..
excerpts:
[But from outside two groups of demonstrators were clearly visible, each of perhaps a few hundred students, our correspondent says.
One group was made up of government supporters. Another group of opponents was chanting: "Death to the dictator." ]
even more interesting..
[It has also emerged that parts of a speech given by the president last week in the US may have been blocked by the state broadcaster, our correspondent adds.
During the speech Mr Ahmadinejad criticised those pressing for negotiations on the nuclear issue. Much of the speech was carried live but those comments were not aired.
Mr Ahmadinejad's remarks were seen as criticism of supporters of former President Hashimi Rafsanjani.
It seems that Mr Rafsanjani may have some friends in the state broadcasting network who did not want the comments to be aired, our correspondent says.]
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It's interesting that this is even seeing the light of day. Could it be that with international opinions leaning more and more toward a miltary strike on Iran, the Iranian government has made a decison to allow snippets of dissent to be broadcast in an attempt to deter further talk of sanctions and or miltary action against them?
It's odd that during a speech condemning western democracy, symptoms of it would be allowed to be on such prominant display.
Something stinks here. Of course, the students involved, if they wern't "part" of a cast of characters in a government charade, could wind up 'absent' for the rest of their foreseeable school years, or worse.
I did read that after the first protest, the 'students' were not allowed to leave. That sounds more like the Ahmanutjob we've all come to know.
Sure looked like more than 100 to me! It's probably like the 25,000 supporters who banded together to support the war who were not shown on any media outlet here in San Antonio, but a few war protesters, less than 100 WERE shown! Typical.
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