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With arrests, expulsions, more "Islamic" classes, Iran cracks down on university dissent
Canada East/ AP ^ | Scheherezade Faramarzi

Posted on 12/05/2009 5:20:53 AM PST by nuconvert

BEIRUT - As they gear up for a major anti-government protest Monday, Iranian students are besieged by a clampdown in the universities, with a wave of arrests and expulsions. At the same time, authorities are intensifying enforcement of Islamic morals on women's dress and men's hair length as a way to punish political dissent.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: crackdown; greenmovement; iran; iranprotest; iranstudents; regime

1 posted on 12/05/2009 5:20:54 AM PST by nuconvert
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“She said her friends were turned away for wearing striped sweat pants under their overcoats - stripes are considered sexually provocative. “

Where do they get this crap?


2 posted on 12/05/2009 5:24:24 AM PST by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: nuconvert

You should view the documentary film, The Glass House, you will see how "stupidly" these people exist. Un-beleveable. They are almost a "stone age mentality" trying to exist in a "modern world." Much of their belief system is solely based on a obstinate slave-like control of the muslim men over women in their society. They claim their allah as their reasoning, but their reasoning is uncivilized, to say the least.


3 posted on 12/05/2009 5:35:43 AM PST by MajorThomas (Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.)
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To: nuconvert
stripes are considered sexually provocative. “
Where do they get this crap?


4 posted on 12/05/2009 5:47:44 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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