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Iran: Students challenge Ahmadinejad again

Categories: Middle East & North Africa, Iran, Digital Activism, Governance, Politics, Protest

Hundreds of students from Shahid Beheshti University [1] in Tehran protested against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to their own university on May 10th. They chanted slogans against him such as “dictator have shame” and “let the university be free.”

The students were attacked by security and Basij [2]forces:

It seems that each time the Iranian president visits a university, hundreds of students march against him. Last week, we witnessed the same story in Tehran: