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Copyright 2003 The Financial Times Limited  Financial Times (London) June 16, 2003, Monday London Edition 1 SECTION: MIDDLE EAST; Pg. 6 LENGTH: 427 words HEADLINE: Iran student protests spread to other cities BYLINE: By NAJMEH BOZORGMEHR DATELINE: TEHRAN BODY:Anti-regime protests in Tehran, led by students, have spread to other cities, while Iran's Islamic establishment has slammed US support for the demonstrators as interference in the country's internal affairs. The protests continued early yesterday morning in Tehran for the fifth successive day, though on a smaller scale than previously. Few clashes were reported amid a heavy presence of police and Islamic...

Fox News just broke in with an alert stating that Reuters is reporting gunshots at the scene of Iranian protests. People wearing kevlar and wielding AK's have been seen. No word on casualties as of yet.

Iranian students openly defy rule of the mullahs By Justin Huggler 14 June 2003 Thousands of Iranian students took to the streets of Tehran yesterday in the biggest protests against the mullahs' rule since the huge demonstrations four years ago. Students fought in the streets with hardline vigilantes on motorbikes who were armed with chains, clubs and cattle prods.It was the third successive night ot protests. The students rounded on Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, chanting: "Death to Khamenei" and "Khamenei, the traitor, must be hanged." In a society where criticising the Supreme Leader is punishable by jail, this...

ISTANBUL, June 13 -- Clashes between students and security forces in Tehran appear to be the most significant civic protests inside Iran for in almost five years, analysts and witnesses say, but it was far from clear this morning whether the unrest would extend to the general population.Authorities made a huge show of force at Tehran University Thursday night, busing in hundreds of riot police to deter students from mounting a third night of protests. Witnesses said students gathered in a dormitory for hours after dark weighing whether to risk clashes with police and the basij militia who serve as...

TEHRAN, March 9 (AFP) - More than 120 Iranian MPs sent an open letter to President Mohammed Khatami denouncing measures taken against student leaders during protests in November over the sentencing of a dissident intellectual, IRNA said Sunday. The statement, signed by 125 of Iran's 290 MPs, blasted the "unjust measures taken by university disciplinary committees and certain security, police and judicial services against student leaders." The MPs asked Khatami, who heads the Supreme Council for National Security that ordered committees to take harsher measures, to ensure there was more leniency. Last November, Iranian students staged a series of large...