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Students riot in Tehran over curbs
Gulf Times Newspaper ^
| Thursday, 25 May, 2006, 11:06 AM Doha Time
| staff
Posted on 05/25/2006 9:20:45 AM PDT by staytrue
Students riot in Tehran over curbs
TEHRAN: Stone-throwing Iranian students fought police and Islamic vigilantes yesterday in protest against restrictions imposed by the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, witnesses said.
Students who covered their faces with scarves lit fires outside dormitories through Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, photographs showed. By dawn the streets were littered with hundreds of stones they had thrown.
Deputy Tehran Governor Abdollah Roshan told the Isna students news agency 40 policemen and four students had been injured. He said the police had arrested six people.
Senior student leader Abdollah Momeni said up to 2,000 students had gathered for the protest over the expulsion of some students and the way authorities had been handling critics.
He added 20 had been seized by Islamic vigilantes who broke into the dormitories.
“The main reason for the objections in recent days goes back to the limitations imposed on universities and political students after the new government came to power,” Momeni said.
Other student witnesses said the crowd had chanted “Down with despotism” and hurled stones at police cars outside the dormitories, breaking their windows. – Reuters
Gulf Times Newspaper, 2006
TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: iran; studentmovement
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posted on
05/25/2006 9:20:46 AM PDT
by
staytrue
To: staytrue
Stone-throwing Iranian students We gotta start importing better weapons!
2
posted on
05/25/2006 9:21:47 AM PDT
by
formercalifornian
(One nation, under whatever popular fad comes to mind at the moment, indivisible...)
To: staytrue
3
posted on
05/25/2006 9:21:47 AM PDT
by
Ramius
(Buy blades for war fighters: freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net --> 1100 knives and counting!)
To: staytrue
Students riot in Tehran over curbsParking issues?
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posted on
05/25/2006 9:22:08 AM PDT
by
Disambiguator
(Unfettered gun ownership is the highest expression of civil rights.)
To: staytrue
Now these are some "angry youths" I like!
5
posted on
05/25/2006 9:23:05 AM PDT
by
Gator101
To: Disambiguator
It's where the students got the stones.
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posted on
05/25/2006 9:23:34 AM PDT
by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch ist der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
To: staytrue
"40 policemen and four students had been injured." Sounds like the police exercised a fair degree of restraint which might lead one to believe some among their ranks are harboring some sympathies with the students.
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posted on
05/25/2006 9:23:40 AM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: staytrue
8
posted on
05/25/2006 9:24:46 AM PDT
by
sono
("Why can't we deport them? Mexico did." J Leno)
To: Gator101
Yes, young people fighting for freedom instead of a hand out.
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posted on
05/25/2006 9:24:58 AM PDT
by
Mazda3Fan
To: sono
excellent link in post 8.
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posted on
05/25/2006 9:26:50 AM PDT
by
staytrue
(Moonbat conservatives-those who would rather have the democrats win.)
To: Joe 6-pack
Sounds like the police exercised a fair degree of restraint which might lead one to believe some among their ranks are harboring some sympathies with the students. The communists failed in russia when the miltary refused to shoot the people. The same happened to Milosevic in Serbia. Yes, this is a hopeful sign, when the police refuse to shoot.
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posted on
05/25/2006 9:29:14 AM PDT
by
staytrue
(Moonbat conservatives-those who would rather have the democrats win.)
To: Mazda3Fan
To: Joe 6-pack
Sounds like the police exercised a fair degree of restraint which might lead one to believe some among their ranks are harboring some sympathies with the students. You might be on to something...
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posted on
05/25/2006 9:35:54 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(Real trolls are brief, insulting, and at the top of threads.)
To: staytrue
Don't they like curbs in Tehran?
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posted on
05/25/2006 9:36:44 AM PDT
by
RexBeach
("There is no substitute for victory." -Douglas MacArthur)
To: RexBeach
The Kurbs need a homeland, too.........
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posted on
05/25/2006 9:39:05 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Liberals ignore criminal behavior, reward sloth and revere incompetence...........)
To: staytrue
Just think what they may do over sidewalks, or streets even!!
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posted on
05/25/2006 9:39:10 AM PDT
by
stuartcr
(Everything happens as God wants it to.....otherwise, things would be different.)
To: staytrue
Until the average Iranian will stand up to their fascist government and overthrow it, they are just pissing in the wind.
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posted on
05/25/2006 9:39:42 AM PDT
by
wmileo
To: staytrue
Students riot in Tehran over curbsFree Curbistan!
To: staytrue
We need to give these students the tools to have a real effect here.
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posted on
05/25/2006 9:42:55 AM PDT
by
CougarGA7
(There are no trophies for winning wars. Only consequences for losing them.)
To: wmileo
I think joe 6pack has it right in post 7.
When the guys with the guns flip, it is over for the mullahs.
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posted on
05/25/2006 9:43:32 AM PDT
by
staytrue
(Moonbat conservatives-those who would rather have the democrats win.)
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