Pics from Belgium - Unarmed Iranian stage a protest in a Belgian airport

Various | Mar 10th, 05 | Self

[Khashayar]

Several dozen passengers refused to disembark from a Lufthansa airliner when it arrived in Brussels in what appeared to be a protest against the European Union (news - web sites)'s conciliatory policies towards Iran (news - web sites), officials and reports said.(AFP-EPA/File/Frank May)

A relative of an Iranian who is protesting against the government in Tehran aboard a Lufthansa aircraft on the tarmac at Brussels' Zaventem airport talks with a security guard, March 10, 2005. A group of passengers refused to leave the plane after it landed in Brussels earlier today and are demanding the European Union (news - web sites) remove the Islamic leaders from Iran (news - web sites). REUTERS/Francois Lenoir

A Boeing plane of German Lufthansa is parked alongside Pier A at Brussels National airport in Zaventem, occupied by some 60 Iranians. Some 60 people of Iranian origin refused to leave the plane on arrival in Brussels, to protest against the European Union's conciliatory policies towards Iran.(AFP/Jacques Collet)

[freedom44]

It's an act of civil disobedience. In disagreement of EU'S negotitiating with the IRI - they' demonstrated. Peacefully, and effectively - these guys are heros for pushing a just cause.

[sheltonmac]

Any one who calls the Shah a tyrant is obviously a liberal or a leftist who watches CBS a lot.

Just wondering.....what is your opinion of Dr. Mohammad Mossadegh and what the Shah did to him?

[Khashayar]

Hi
Mr. Mossadegh was a great leader Iran could have ever seen in her history but he was just going to be leaning on the Soviet Union and he went a bit nuts and stood against the late Shah of Iran.

And I do not know what could have happenned to IRAN and the free world if Soviets and Tudeh Party (Commies party in Iran) would take control over my country. I guess, we might have become another Cuba in the middle east.

But technically, it was one of our chances to have a real real freedom as you do have in the west.

but I like the Shah a lot more than him.