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It's nice to see AP and FOX reporting this. However, the last line, " But pro-government student groups have grown more powerful" is a bit misleading. It's not like the pro-regime students have naturally increased because they love the gov't. The pro-regime students are predominantly basij - para military put there by the regime to control opposition to the gov't.
1 posted on 10/08/2007 8:12:16 AM PDT by nuconvert
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To: nuconvert

We might see more of this as Iran’s ruling class might want to lull the West’s citizens by showcasing the political freedom granted (for a time and a specific purpose).

If so, I’d expect to see more of these and the regime commenting on the “messiness of democracy”, etc.


2 posted on 10/08/2007 8:16:05 AM PDT by George W. Bush (Apres moi, le deluge.)
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Iranian Students Stage Rare Demonstration Against Ahmadinejad

And now.... A moment of silence in honor of the memory of those brave students.

3 posted on 10/08/2007 8:17:49 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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The students identified at the anti-Ahmadinejad protest mentioned last year, were arrested and what has happened to them or will happen in the future is not a pleasant thought.


4 posted on 10/08/2007 8:18:45 AM PDT by nuconvert ("Terrorism is not the enemy. It is a means to the ends of militant Islamism." MZJ)
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Reuters’ take .....”Iran students call president “dictator” during scuffle”

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071008/wl_nm/iran_students_ahmadinejad_dc_1


5 posted on 10/08/2007 8:23:57 AM PDT by nuconvert ("Terrorism is not the enemy. It is a means to the ends of militant Islamism." MZJ)
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Been happening since forever. I remember stories of it happening in ancient Greece Egypt and China.
Hell, those kind of tactics happen tight here in the good ol U.S.A. as practiced by unions, Democrats and even the Clintons.


6 posted on 10/08/2007 8:33:38 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (An enemy of Islam)
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The sign held by the male student asks for the release from prison of three university students, and the female student's sign asks, "We have questions too, why just Columbia?"

8 posted on 10/08/2007 11:44:32 AM PDT by nuconvert ("Terrorism is not the enemy. It is a means to the ends of militant Islamism." MZJ)
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Video from today. Looks like more than 100 people to me.

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-5475787299438292437&q=tehran+university&total=122&start=0&num=10&so=1&type=search&plindex=0


9 posted on 10/08/2007 8:08:52 PM PDT by nuconvert ("Terrorism is not the enemy. It is a means to the ends of militant Islamism." MZJ)
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