Students in Tehran lash out at Ahmadinejad

Source: Los Angeles Times

By Ramin Mostaghim, Special to The Times
October 8, 2007


Students, chanting death to the dictator, defy a crackdown on dissent and protest the Iranian leader's visit to a Tehran university.

TEHRAN -- Dozens of students opposed to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's human rights record confronted the leader and his supporters today at the country's most prestigious university.

The students, defying a broad government crackdown on dissent, accused Ahmadinejad of corruption and discrimination and chanted "death to the dictator."

The president came to the campus to inaugurate the academic year, just two weeks after his controversial visit to Columbia University in New York. He was flanked by the head of the university and the minister of science. Black-shirted Basiji militia members shouted in support of Ahmadinejad. "Our president, thank you, thank you," they said.

Ahmadinejad, reviled in the West for denying the Holocaust and calling for the destruction of Israel, cuts a divisive figure at home. His government has tolerated little dissent, arresting students, purging free-thinking professors and cracking down on young men and women wearing Western-style clothing....

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deluded. (sarcasm off). Iran will eventually implode from within.

That must take a bit of courage.

Sounds an awful lot like the "protests" we had at Columbia. The media made it seem like thousands of New Yorkers were lined up in the streets protesting dummies visit when in fact there were at best a few dozen. From what I can tell, most New Yorkers wouldn't give this guy the time of day much less take time to protest his presence.

Dozens of students means at least 24. Not really that many people.
Were these "students" or "agents"?
Its definitely in Ahmadinejads best interest's to show the world that political dissent is OK in Iran. I would bet these same "students" arrived with there own camera crew as well.
Believe me, if this were a real student protest, we'd never hear about much less see pictures.

Ahmenwhatshisname is a tyrant. I find it hard to believe he's all of a sudden changed his ways.
This is propaganda plain and simple.

The more this man is marginalized, the greater the chance war can be avoided.