Posted on 04/30/2007 3:15:54 PM PDT by Cornpone
Tehran, 30 April (AKI) - A group of supporters of Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday forced their way into the campus of top Tehran university Amir Kabir Polytechnic and assaulted a group of student activists who were staging a peaceful rally against the detention of their spokesman Babak Zamanian, who was arrested last week. About a dozen students who were stabbed and attacked with chains were transferred to hospital. A similar attack by Ahmadinejad supporters was carried out Monday against activists at the university of Lorestan, in western Iran.
About a dozen government supporters wounded with knives students who were staging a demonstration on campus. One of the protesters, Siamak Nadali is in hospital in a critical condition.
Students at the university of Lorestan were carrying out an all-out protest, following the example of their peers in the capital Tehran, in Babol near the Caspian sea, and Shiraz in the west, who are rallying against new government measures imposing strict new dress codes and opening hours on campus as well as restrictions on political activity.
Last December, dozens of protesters burned pictures of Ahmadinejad crying 'dictator go away', 'death to dictatorship' and threw firecrackers when Ahmadinejad was visiting Amir Kabir university in Tehran. The rally forced him to interrupt several times a speech he was giving and leave before scheduled.
The students’ complaints largely mirrored public frustrations over the president’s crackdown on civil liberties, his poor economic policies and a Holocaust denial conference his government had organised early December.
They also protested against the president’s campaign to purge the universities of all aspects of the reform movement of his predecessor, Mohammad Khatami.
It was the first time since his landslide victory in June 2005 that Ahmadinejad was challenged in public.
Pray for the anti-Ammagonnahaveajihad activists to be successful in turning Iran around!!
I do on a regular basis.
Ahmedeadman is an even better leader than Saddam Hussein was, at least by the standards of A.N.S.W.E.R. ;’)
They could use some logistical assistance too.(wink)
This is only working to ensure that President Rat Face and his ilk will be swept away in the coming Iranian elections by more moderate forces. Yes, I know in Iran moderation is all relative but Rat Face is likely to be replaced by a president that actually looks sane by comparison.
Islamic thugs never get that their strong arm tactics seem to almost always have the opposite intended effect of intimidating people. Just like in Iraq with Al Qaeda trying to bomb Iraqis into submission, just the opposite is occuring as a sleeping giant of outrage is waking up among Sunnis to begin sweeping Al Qaeda off the face of the land there in Iraq.
So too these brutish attacks by Rat Face’s little weenies will backfire on him and ensure he’s sent packing in a few months when the elections are held.
‘Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.’”
He's as good as finished. God be with you, Siamak Nadali.
Ping.
It was the first time since his landslide victory in June 2005 that Ahmadinejad was challenged in public.
And not the last.
Thanks for the ping
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