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Slogan-Chanting Iran Crowd Welcomes Nobel Laureate
The Iranian Student Movement Up to the Minute Reports ^ | 10-14-03

Posted on 12/03/2003 8:28:44 PM PST by nuconvert

Slogan-Chanting Iran Crowd Welcomes Nobel Laureate

October 14, 2003 Reuters/ Christian Oliver and Parisa Hafezi

TEHRAN -- About 3,000 Iranians, chanting "Free political prisoners" and "Liberty and justice are the slogans of our nation," welcomed home Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi on Tuesday.

The human rights lawyer's Nobel prize has ignited strong passions in her home country, reflecting deep political divisions between reformers and hard-liners over the future of the Islamic Republic.

In a carnival-like atmosphere at Tehran's Mehrabad airport, welcomers clapped, linked arms and sang popular anthems dating from before the 1979 Islamic revolution.

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