Iran students' day of protest
source: http://blogs.current.com/news/2009/12/08/iran-students-day-of-protest/
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From the LA Times: "...[A]mateur videotape posted on the Internet showed thousands of anti-government students chanting slogans and gathering on various campuses around the country. Credible reports of protests emerged from campuses in the central Iranian cities of Esfahan, Shiraz and Kerman, in the eastern city of Mashhad and in the western cities of Tabriz, Kermanshah, Hamedan and Ilam as well as in Rasht on the Caspian Sea."
The New York Times Lede Blog has a great round up of coverage from yesterday, including several videos. This video is of students at Ami Kabir University pulling down its gates.
These protests seem to have shifted from the aims of the first round of protests in the summer. Instead of being focused on the disputed election, there were various reports of protesters calling out the regime itself. From Newsweek:
"The first wave of dissent after the elections was explicitly focused on voter fraud, both from a genuine belief that the system would investigate the results and also so that protestors couldn't be accused of trying to overthrow the system. But as the government crackdown increased, the position of the opposition began to harden. The slogans today are the clearest indication yet that at least some elements of the opposition are not only challenging the results of the presidential election, but the regime itself. One video posted on the Internet today even showed a protestor burning pictures of both Khamenei and Ahmadinejad. This may not sit well with the moderate elements of the opposition, and the student protestors may have overplayed their hand."
The cycle of protests leading to harsher crackdowns leading to more radical protests leading to harsher crackdowns continues. What will become of Iran's opposition? Will they all end up jailed or repressed? Or are we looking at a crack in the very foundation of Iran's theocratic regime?
FROM THE NEWS BLOG: http://blogs.current.com/news/2009/12/08/iran-students-day-of-protest/
SOURCES: http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-fg-iran-protests8-2009dec08,0,71...
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/07/latest-updates-on-new-protests-in-ir...
http://www.newsweek.com/id/226069
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ahappymintleaf
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I haven't watched big media news in a while, but I can't imagine that the demonizing of Iran by several US voices can still resonate with many Americans when videos like this show their own principles and strong will for fairness. I hope that any crackdown will somehow be minimal and that pressure on the Iranian government from both inside and outside the country will lead to a better future for the country's people.
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ahappymintleaf
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Ares
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Don't be surprised if a bunch of those kids get killed sometime next year and we have to listen to cries that the United States didn't act to prevent it.
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Ares
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dumbfound877
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iran has reclaimed it's voice!
what a proud day.
everyone, please notice the style of these protests! NO Violence, NO hate, peaceful and energetic. this is a new paradigm indeed. - 2 years ago
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