Monday, December 10, 2007

Iranian Students Protest Against Crackdown on Activists

The desire for freedom is alive in Iran. Once again students are risking jail and worse to throw off the yoke of Islamic totalitarianism. The West needs to support the students in every way. While it is probable that Iran will be attacked to prevent it from acquiring nuclear weapons, overthrow from within is far preferable. Adopting the slogan "Live Free or Die" has special meaning in Iran.
FROM FOXNEWS.COM:
Iranian Students Protest Against Crackdown on Activists
Sunday , December 09, 2007

Hundreds of Iranian students expressed their anger over a crackdown on activists and protested Sunday at Tehran University, the second such demonstration in less than a week, witnesses and state radio said.
One witness, Mehdi Arabshahi, said the campus protest lasted more than two hours as students rallied against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's hardline administration.
"Students chanted against policies by Ahmadinejad's administration, which is imposing pressures on the universities and detaining activists," Arabshahi said.
Another witness, Abbas Kazemi, said the protesters also called out anti-war slogans aimed at the United States and Israel.
He said students from other universities joined in the protest and broke one of the university's gates. But, Kazemi said, there were no clashes with police and no one was detained.
Tehran state-run radio in a news brief confirmed that students held a protest at Tehran University, saying the students chanted slogans against officials. It also said a group of non-students entered the university after breaking one of the gates but provided no other details. The media was not allowed to enter the university.
The university and its surrounding neighborhood was calm after the gathering and welders were repairing the broken gate.
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