[DoctorZIn]

We look like we are nearing a tipping point in Iran.

[ewing]

Looks like tomorrow is a showdown...who is going to blink first

[jriemer]

Now if they would just start rolling over cars like US college students after winning / losing the "big game" the mullah's would have something to fear from these Iranian college students.

[Marysecretary]

I hope the US helps them accomplish their purpose!

[TigerLikesRooster]

Free Iran!

[bigghurtt]

I am reminded of the events leading up to the fall of communism...this could be a bigger issue than we realize even now.

my prayers that the ball is rolling towards freedom for iranians.

[jriemer]

The students' letter also accused the Interior Ministry of refusing to permit July 9 street rallies, while university officials have been opposed to holding ceremonies on university grounds.

Permit? We don't need no steekin' permit...

[Skibane]

Signed Thursday by 106 prominent students, the letter protested the trampling of legitimate freedoms and a government ban on street rallies to mark the July 9, 1999, raid on a Tehran University dormitory that killed one person and injured at least 20 others.

Just exactly how do you get to be a "prominent student"?

[DannyTN]

Attach the Mullahs to trees!

[eyespysomething]

Go guys go.

Good for them. I hope too many aren't killed.

Prayers for them.

[Jeff Head]

It's a hard wind gonna blow over there.

Either it will gain momentum and we (the U.S.) will ultimately support it to the overthrow of the Mullahs...or it will lead to a more fundamental regime taking control.

I postulate the latter in my Dragon's Fury Series of Novels, which then leads to World War.

God bless and keep these young folks who are standing up to abject tyranny and risking all to do so.

[eyespysomething]

Go guys go.

Good for them. I hope too many aren't killed.

Prayers for them.

[theDentist]

hey Doc, once again, if it looks like the "security" folks are looking for you, get to safety. Too many people are "disappearing" out there.

[conservonator]

Wow, this is going to be very interesting. How much support do the students have from the general population?

[ellery]

Prayers for a tipping point -- and a velvet revolution!

[Tauzero]

"The protests earlier this month began with students demonstrating against plans to privatize universities and snowballed into broader displays of opposition to Khamenei's clerical establishment."

Are these protestors for freedom or for secular marxism?

[6323cd]

November 4, 1979: Students of Iran, stormed the American Embassy in Tehran, seizing Americans at gunpoint and holding them as prisoners, or to be technically correct, hostages, held for a political purpose, and that purpose was to unite Iran as a nation, and to humiliate the United States, Iran's most powerful ally.

Can't these bloody dimwits make up their minds?!?!

[TigerTale]

BTTT

Free Persia now.

[MattAMiller]

At this point something is going to have to give. Cracking down is probably no longer a serious option. The student movement too large, too broad, too coherent, and too emboldened to simply go away. The clerics are doomed, and Khatami doesn't seem to have the trust of the populace he needs to simply make a few moderate reforms. The collapse of the Iranian Government appears to be imminent. The only question is whether or not it will survive the summer.

[dinok]

Tick-tock...tick-tock...

end of the line Mulahs...

[Billthedrill]

Watch yer six, Doc. This one's going to get very ugly. The radicals are pretty involved in Iraq at the moment, but there are enough thugs already in country to hurt a lot of people.

I can put it very simply. If Iran throws the imams out of secular power the whole world changes. It's that big.