Last Updated: Wednesday, 11 June, 2003, 02:11 GMT 03:11 UK
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Iranians protest against clerics
Previous protests have been peaceful
Thousands of Iranians have taken part in a late-night, anti-government demonstration in the capital, Tehran.
The action began as a protest by students against plans to privatise some universities.
But it turned into a wider demonstration, with crowds marching through the streets around Tehran University denouncing the hardline religious establishment.
One report says Iranian police dispersed the protesters.
Earlier on Tuesday, Iran's biggest student organisation criticised the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, urging him to choose the path of democracy, or suffer the destruction of the Islamic government.
Some residents said Tuesday's demonstration was the largest since students took action in 1999.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2980102.stm The more the mullahs oppress them the more they will rise up.
This is just setting the stage for July 9th, may it be a
glorious new beginning.
The new chants have got to be music to the ears to those of us who endured 444 days of humiliation during the limp-wristed administration of Jimmy Carter.
Do not forget that the Persians had an advanced society and a logical religion (Zorastism) which respected and peacefully coexisted with it neighbors before being forcibly converted to Islam. Much of the uniqueness of Persian culture comes from their Zorastic roots.