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stefania
Joined: 17 Jul 2003 Posts: 4250 Location: Italy
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Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2004 11:24 am Post subject: Iranian students protest against regime and mandatory veil |
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Iranian students protest against regime and mandatory veil
SMCCDI (Information Service)
Dec 6, 2004
Hundreds of Iranian students gathered at the occasion of the official and governmental sponsored "Students Day", in Tehran University's amphitheater, in order to denounce persistent repression. Thousands of more gathered in the campus and in front of the univeristy.
Slogans were shouted against the regime and its leaders during officials speeches, such as, the one made by Mohammad Khatami. "Freedom, Freedom", "Enough lies", "Student is Angry, Rejecting Khatami" were heard at several occasion forcing an angry and threatening Khatami and other speakers to cut each time their speeches.
Many female students protested against the mandatory veil which is one of the basis of the regime's gender apartheid by carrying placards condemning the chador.
Some students were calling for an end to the theocratic regime and a real election on the choice of the future Secular Iranian regime. Other were requesting the release of all political prisoners and especially held students and teachers.
Other were denouncing the desperate try of Bassij students intending to use the students gathering in order to carry anti-US propaganda. Students took their distances with these elements by souting "Down with Taleban, In Kabul and in Tehran".
The protest actions were made despite heavy security presence.
The situation at Tehran University and many other Academic institution are very tense despite the fact that many students didn't participate as they do believe that the real "Students Day" is the date of July 9th.
Several Academies are on strike, such as, Esafahan and Ghazvin in which violent clashes happened last week between the students and members of the regime security forces resulting in the destruction of many public materials and arrest of several students. _________________ Referendum AFTER Regime Change
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stefania
Joined: 17 Jul 2003 Posts: 4250 Location: Italy
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Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2004 12:48 pm Post subject: |
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Some students' anger was unabated during the speech
Khatami in his own words...
Quote: | "There is no Third World country where the students can talk to their president and criticise the government as you do now.
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"I really believe in this system and the revolution and that this system can be developed from within," he is quoted as saying. |
students' response:
Quote: | But student leader Abdollah Momeni complained that there was is no difference between the president and the authoritarians who thwarted his reform programme. |
Source: BBC , that still calls the students "reformists" _________________ Referendum AFTER Regime Change
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