Iran students heckle Ahmadinejad
A number of student demonstrations against Ahmadinejad have taken place
in recent days
Iranian students disrupted a speech by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian
president, at a prestigious Tehran university, setting fire to his
picture and heckling him.
The Fars news agency, which is close to Ahmadinejad, said on Monday:
"Some students chanted radical slogans and inflamed the atmosphere of
the meeting" at the Amir Kabir University.
"A small number of students shouted 'death to the dictator' and smashed
cameras of state television but they were confronted by a bigger group
of students in the hall chanting: 'We support Ahmadinejad'," it said.
Ahmadinejad responded by calling the rebellious students an
"oppressive" minority.
This is the first time in two years that such protests have taken place
on this scale at Iranian universities.
"A small number of people who claim there is oppression are creating
oppression and do not let the majority hear [my] words," he said.
According to the student news agency ISNA, Ahmadinejad responded to the
students' chants of "students can die but they do not accept
degradation" by criticising the US.
"Today, the worst type of dictatorship in the world is the American
dictatorship which has been clothed in human rights," he said. "Our
students are free and they fight and die but do not accept the
foreigners' missions or bend to them."
'Honour to burn'
"It is my honour to burn for the sake of the nation's ideals and defend
the system," Ahmadinejad was quoted as telling protesters who set fire
to his picture, according to ISNA.
"Americans must know that even if Ahmadinejad's body is burnt a
thousand times for this purpose, Ahmadinejad will not retreat even a
centimetre from these ideals."
The Iranian president's speech was also interrupted by firecrackers,
ISNA said.
A group of Amir Kabir's top students had earlier expressed objections
to the government's economic and political agenda as well as
confrontation with student activists and ridding universities of
independent lecturers.
"Today, the worst type of dictatorship in the world is the American
dictatorship which has been clothed in human rights"
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,
Iranian President
"Bankrupting the country's industry, inflation, distribution of
poverty, defacement of the country's international image and playing
with the nation's fate in diplomatic issues," were among the points
brought up in a statement.
"University is alive and criticises the government," it added,
according to ISNA.
The incident came after hundreds of Iranian students protested at Amir
Kabir on Sunday to denounce a crackdown on a reformist-led university
association, according to the ISNA news agency.
Between 2,000 and 3,000 students also demonstrated at Tehran University
on Wednesday to mark students' day, chanting slogans such as "for
freedom and against despotism", said ISNA.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/61EFAC7F-4C0E-4949-9D50-8CF00FC667C8.htm
Looks like the well-known underground attempts by US/British/Israeli
influences to foment dissent against the Iranian government, with the
intention of sowing the seeds for its downfall, are once again
surfacing in Teheran. (The grand prize being profiteering from its huge
oil reserves, cheap labor, etc.)
Weird defiant retort by Ahmadinejad aimed at the protestors might, to
his dismay, prove to be prophetic (LOL!)...in any case, he really knows
how to keep himself in the forefront of the news. A real master at
manipulating the major media bloodhounds...
Dr. Bipolar
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