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Iranian Protesters Demand Release of Students (Several cities throughout Iran involved)
VOA ^ | Dec. 9, 2007

Posted on 12/09/2007 11:58:14 AM PST by nuconvert

Iranian Protesters Demand Release of Students

By VOA News

09 December 2007

Iranian state media say students have staged a demonstration at Tehran University, damaging the main gate.

The state-run IRNA news agency says the protesters Sunday chanted slogans against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and carried banners calling for the release of three fellow students.

The incident comes a day after intelligence agents arrested several people at Tehran University for allegedly planning an illegal demonstration.

State media quote Iran's Intelligence Ministry as saying Saturday that those arrested had entered the university using fake student cards. The ministry says anti-government groups had encouraged the suspects to come to Tehran University to create unrest.

Iran's Intelligence Ministry says agents confiscated several items from the suspects, including slings and rocks.

Iranian university students have held several rallies against President Ahmadinejad in recent months, accusing him of cracking down on dissent on campuses.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: California; US: New Hampshire
KEYWORDS: ahmadinejad; demonstration; iran; protest; studentprotest
According to one report, " thousands of "angry students" broke the main gates of the university campus and invited the people to unite with them in their protest against the theocratic regime of Iran. The students chanted: "Death to Dictator", "Referendum is what nation wants", "Free Jailed Students".


1 posted on 12/09/2007 11:58:16 AM PST by nuconvert
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2 posted on 12/09/2007 11:59:26 AM PST by nuconvert ("Terrorism is not the enemy. It is a means to the ends of militant Islamism." MZJ)
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"Live Free or Die"


3 posted on 12/09/2007 12:00:31 PM PST by nuconvert ("Terrorism is not the enemy. It is a means to the ends of militant Islamism." MZJ)
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To: nuconvert

Has anyone read the latest Flynn novel “Protect and Defend”?
It sounds like it might be right on.


4 posted on 12/09/2007 12:02:16 PM PST by ODDITHER
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More pictrures here....

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5 posted on 12/09/2007 12:04:21 PM PST by nuconvert ("Terrorism is not the enemy. It is a means to the ends of militant Islamism." MZJ)
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To: AdmSmith; Valin; freedom44; odds; Pan_Yans Wife; TigerLikesRooster

pong


6 posted on 12/09/2007 12:06:37 PM PST by nuconvert ("Terrorism is not the enemy. It is a means to the ends of militant Islamism." MZJ)
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To: nuconvert

Brave students. I hope they stay safe.

The Iranian youth, by and large, have their heads on straight. Straighter than many here in America who applauded Ahmanutjob at Columbia.


7 posted on 12/09/2007 1:07:29 PM PST by G8 Diplomat (Creatures are divided into 6 kingdoms: Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Monera, Protista, & Saudi Arabia)
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To: nuconvert
Getting restless....

Godspeed, Iranian people.

8 posted on 12/09/2007 1:33:50 PM PST by Allegra (Greetings from a kinder, gentler Iraq. God bless US and Coalition Forces.)
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To: nuconvert

Where were these students when their government paraded British prisoners in front of state run cameras?

These students may not like their clerics, but of we attack Iran I suspect they’ll happily line to be fitted with a government made suicide vest.


9 posted on 12/09/2007 3:35:06 PM PST by navyguy (Some days you are the pigeon, some days you are the statue.)
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To: nuconvert

Where’s Code Pink?


10 posted on 12/09/2007 3:35:24 PM PST by trooprally (Never Give Up - Never Give In - Remember Our Troops)
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To: nuconvert

PING


11 posted on 12/09/2007 7:21:15 PM PST by DeaconBenjamin
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To: nuconvert

bump for later


12 posted on 12/09/2007 7:46:24 PM PST by Ladycalif (Free The Texas 3 - Ramos, Compean and Hernandez)
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To: nuconvert

President Bush and Republican leaders should announce their solidarity with the Iranian students and tweak Nutjob’s nose.

Any outside pressure and media exposure will help the Iranians to take courage and take back their country from the 7th century mullahs.


13 posted on 12/09/2007 8:13:24 PM PST by exit82 (How do you handle Hillary? You Huma her.)
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To: nuconvert

It’s working.

The Iranians have seen the ‘Promised Land’ (Iraq)

And now they want the same.

The more revolts, the sooner Ahm-a-nutjob will be gone.


14 posted on 12/09/2007 8:19:13 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (-Not Afraid of the truth, and the whole truth - Are you?)
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