Iran: Ahmadinejad Supporters Stab Protesters At Top University

[jmc247]

Source: AKI

A group of supporters of Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday forced their way into the campus of top Tehran university Amir Kabir Polytechnic and assaulted a group of student activists who were staging a peaceful rally against the detention of their spokesman Babak Zamanian, who was arrested last week. About a dozen students who were stabbed and attacked with chains were transferred to hospital.

A similar attack by Ahmadinejad supporters was carried out Monday against activists at the university of Lorestan, in western Iran.

About a dozen government supporters wounded with knives students who were staging a demonstration on campus. One of the protesters, Siamak Nadali is in hospital in a critical condition.

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[monktonman]

1. Ummmmm......so?

[ohio2007]

5. IRAN: TEACHERS' UNION LEADER SUSPENDED

Tehran, 30 April (AKI) - Alireza Hashemi, the founder and leader of the independent union of Iranian teachers, was suspended for three months from his job on Monday. Hashemi, who was jailed for three weeks in March, was barred from his classroom Monday morning, the teacher told Adnkronos International (AKI). "On the door of the classroom there was a letter signed by the deputy education minister saying I had been suspended for three months with a salary cut of 75 percent," he told AKI.

Hashemi has been a teacher for the past 25 years and is a key figure for independent trade unions. He is believed to have been suspended for talking to the press, notably to Farsi-language radio and television stations broadcasting outside Iran.

Iranian teachers have been staging protests since February, demanding salary raises and that colleague fired or suspended for political reasons be given their jobs back. Teachers across the country have called for another day of protests on Wednesday and are expected to stage a rally in front of parliament in the capital Tehran.



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Just what are they teaching kids today in the universities?

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

8. Glad it ain't your kid, eh? n/t

[otherlander]

11. So it kind of *matters* when people get stabbed.

[shenmue]

14. Wow, what great compassion

:eyes:

:sarcasm:

[The Stranger]

15. It is a propaganda campaign ostensibly for sanctions, probably more likely to invade Iran.

I think you probably knew this already.

[superconnected]

19. On one hand, yes it's big business to invade - especially with the

defense companies bush and cheney represent. (bush represents united defense as well as the rest of the carlyle group)

But, on the other hand Ahmadinejad is turning that country back to biblical times. It's what we've been worried about here.

It should not be ignored. And that does NOT mean we should invade. Embargo. That company runs off it's corporations like everyone else. Now is the time for a strong united nations.

Unfortunately Irans misfortune will lead to tyrants like Bush invading(on false pretenses of freeing them) and endless bloodshed like in Iraq.

[The Stranger]

22. Iranians having a knife fight or stabbing one another is not something we need to be worried about.

Let Iranians deal with Iran's problems, and especially problems like Iranians in knife-fights.

On the other hand, the fact that 3-5 posts per day show up on these boards about Iran's problems (including problems such as Iranians in knife fights) and some presumed need for a U.S.-sponsored solution is perhaps the real worry here.

Sure, the text is all about preventing Iranians from forcing women to wear cover themselves with black gowns and to avert their eyes, but the subtext is all too familiar: seeking to isolate a nation and its problems in the public mind and thereby ground a slippery slope into another conflict.

In the background, if you listen closely, you can hear a U.S. Presidential candidate singing about "bombing Iran."

[superconnected]

18. So thats a democracy and Ahmadinejad is their *elected* leader.

Ya really gotta watch who comes in power in a democracy. As well as their supporters, especially if they have an intolerant blood lust.

[democratic]

24. Superconnected.

You obviously know nothing about Iranian politics. Ahmadinejad is not the leader of Iran he has absolutely zero power - the leader of Iran with all power vested by the constitution is the never elected Supreme Leader Khamenei. The President is a puppet figure head with no authority or power even so he is vetted by a group of extremely hard-line clerics loyal to the supreme leader, so even the puppet is not elected.

[superconnected]

25. Correct I know little to nothing about iran.

[ohio2007]

2. C'mon, how can anybody pretend they didn't see this comming?

Many of the Basij and Rev Guards are under 30.
They're often the ones most given to zealotry, and least willing to show tolerance of things they disapprove of.


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2827346#2827687

[11cents]

3. I'm sure they didn't really stab them.

Their flowers were just mistranslated as "knives." Happens to Ahmadinejad himself all the time.

[ohio2007]

4. Last December, dozens of protesters burned pictures of Ahmadinejad crying ...

'dictator go away', 'death to dictatorship'

hey,
He resents such accusations.


I'm sure the students actually got paper cuts.

[anotherdrew]

6. people who oppose authoritarians need to consider their right to self defense at all times

we don't need any more martyrs, we need to show these bullies that their actions have real consequences and they won't get away with it.

[otherlander]

10. What are you suggesting?

[ohio2007]

12. ? a Cedar revolution ?

Whack job is going to be a one term president unless people remain lethargic about change

[anotherdrew]

13. bodyguards at least n/t

[otherlander]

16. Yeah, the university should probably hire guards to defend the protesters.

[anotherdrew]

17. no - the protesters should be ready to defend themselves. n/t

[MrPrax]

7. So kids at

Iranian universities face the prospect of imminent death like in American universities?

At least campus politics are lively.

Any reports on on their OD rate during Spring Break? :eyes:

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

20. How'd your OD during spring break go? n/t

[rodeodance]

9. People will tolerate only so much of Ahmadinejad's crackdown. these are very

brave people.

[Odin2005]

21. I see the Ahmadinejad sycophants have arrived.

:eyes:

[ohio2007]

23. Iran arrests former nuclear negotiator ( they are eating their own ? )

Source: AP

TEHRAN, Iran - Iranian authorities have arrested the country's former nuclear negotiator — an ally of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's predecessor and rival — on an unspecified security charge.

The hard-line president, meanwhile, insisted his country will not retreat "even an iota" on its nuclear program.

The Iranian state-run news agency, citing an "unofficial informed source," said Hossein Mousavian was arrested Monday in the capital, Tehran.

Mousavian was a member of the Iranian nuclear negotiating team until 2005 and before that served as Iran's ambassador to Germany. He was a close ally of former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.

Ahmadinejad, who defeated Rafsanjani in the last presidential elections, replaced the nuclear negotiating team, including Mousavian, when he assumed power two years ago.

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Will the student body turn out to "discuss" these turn of events?
nawwww

Rafsanjani was "the reformist" who never brought reforms to the country as was hoped.