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| Students clash with State Security Forces in western Iran |
| 2004-12-06 |
| Heavy clashes erupted between Iran's State Security Forces (SSF) and students from the University of Qazvin (western Iran), after SSF agents raided university buildings and attempted to bring to an end a hunger strike that had been organized in protest to poor university conditions. Students defied official warnings of a crackdown on protesting students. University windows were broken and some buildings were damaged in the clashes. Last Tuesday as part of the ongoing hunger strike, students wrote the word 'etesab', meaning 'strike', on the floor of the main university canteen using their food trays. No word has come about the fate of students who were arrested during the ensuing mayhem. The university campus is presently under siege with local residents reporting that in the past few days, faculty staff have not been permitted to leave the university even during nighttime. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 At risk of paraphrasing .com's post... where's the close air support? |
| Posted by: Asedwich 2004-12-06 8:08:36 PM |
| #5 Yhis is all just opinion... I hate to see the leaders of these groups waste themselves on symbolic shit - when they could be part of the real deal... Yes, lex, I would bet there are some CIA folks who have their wits about them and aren't seditious moonbats. And, of course, the handwriting is on the wall - we know about the admin's determination to clean house, so they've known for a long time. Those who aren't near retirement will be looking to cleanse themselves of association and actions which would put them on the block. The problem will be that upper-middle and upper-level management crust nigh unto retirement and with feelings of career suicide... Now if you could threaten the retirement pkg, well sir, then you'd see a magical transformation... |
| Posted by: .com 2004-12-06 6:15:19 PM |
| #4 Don't count on it, BaR. For the CIA, the enemy's just across the Potomac. Do those jokers even have any assets in Iran now? |
| Posted by: lex 2004-12-06 1:02:54 PM |
| #3 So are the appropriate people in Washington capitalizing on this and other similar developments? Come on guys, hop to it. Disaffected Persians are waiting for you. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-12-06 1:01:31 PM |
| #2 Faster, goddammit |
| Posted by: lex 2004-12-06 6:43:40 AM |
| #1 "Black Turban, the harder you squeeze the stronger I will become." |
| Posted by: FlameBait 2004-12-06 12:25:52 AM |