Protests Still Going Strong

From Mir Hossein Mousavi’s Facebook Page:

Today (Oct. 20, 2009) for the fourth consecutive week , more than thousand students of Tehran’s Azad University held a protest despite the very tight security environment and the presence of the Basij and plain cloths militia who were even brought to… the university from outside. Students were chanting “Ya Hossein, Mir Hossein, “Death to dictator” and other Green slogans in support for the Green leaders and in protest to the coup government.

Students of Tehran University protested Safar-Harandi, the former minister of Islamic Culture in Ahmadinejad’s administration, by chanting slogans like “Murderer get out” and “Death to dictator”. Safar-Harandi was invited to Tehran University by Basij to give a talk when many students protested to his presence which made him very angry. According to MowjCamp a brave student threw his shoe at Safar-Harandi to resemble what happened to George Bush (which ironically was promoted by Ahmadinejad’s administration!) to show if Bush was hated in Iraq so are the coup administration and its allies in their own country.(19 Oct 2009)

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4 Responses to Protests Still Going Strong

  1. Pirouz says:
    October 20, 2009 at 12:32 pm

    Bardia, I wouldn’t necessarily characterize this as “protests still going strong”. It’s more like specific elements still remaing vocal. There’s a difference.

  2. Mia says:
    October 20, 2009 at 2:29 pm

    Pirouz: What do you mean by specific elements?

  3. Someone says:
    October 20, 2009 at 2:42 pm

    @Pirouz

    As I understand, the specific elements that are still remaining vocal are those that are shielded from government violence and repression due to laws that prevent police from entering university campuses. That too makes a difference, no?

  4. FELDart says:
    October 20, 2009 at 8:15 pm

    And where has Mousavi been at the nights while in front of Evin people are waiting for the juveniles hanging procedures to stop?
    Sir, your silent words will never bring a change!
    You will not learn the fight for democracy from the U.S. advisers. They never had to fight for their own democracy, and every time they wanted to show the “nation building” to others, the U.S. failed, never taking responsibility for their failures!

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