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Posted on Dec 21, 2006
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The student movement that led to revolution in Iran may now be setting its sights on the country’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who was protested last week during an appearance at the same university where the 1979 takeover of the U.S. Embassy was planned.

New York Times:

Although the auditorium was almost filled with the president’s supporters by the time any students were let in, the protesters forced their way inside, chanted, “Death to the dictator,” and held banners calling him a “fascist president.” They also held up posters of the president with his picture upside down and set fire to three of them. Many of the students are now in hiding.

At one point, the head of a moderate student guild complained to Mr. Ahmadinejad that students were being expelled for political activities and given three stars next to their names in university records, barring them from re-entering. The president responded by ridiculing him, joking that the three stars made them sergeants in the army.

The president was eventually forced to cut his speech short and leave. But angry students stormed his car, kicking it and chanting slogans. His convoy of four cars collided several times as they tried to leave in a rush. Eventually the students were dispersed.

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By Fadel Abdallah, December 21, 2006 at 2:38 pm #
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Though this piece was intended by the Zionist New York Times to be a piece of propaganda against the free-thinker President of Iran, it helped me increase my respect for him. Here’s what I read behind the lines:

1. “...many of the students are now in hiding.”

This means that they were not arrested and jailed as it would happen in a dictatorship, and even as it would happen here in America.

2. “The president was eventually forced to cut his speech short and leave. But angry students stormed his car, kicking it and chanting slogans. His convoy of four cars collided several times as they tried to leave in a rush. Eventually the students were dispersed.”

Here we have a situation where the students stormed the President’s car, kicking it. If this would have happened in America to Bush, not only the students would have been jailed, but possibly they would have been shot for endagering the president’s life. In the Iranian case, the students were not arrested or shot at, but they dispered unharmed.

Moreover, Ahmdinajad had only a four-car convoy. Would Bush dare to go out in public with only four-car convoy.

My comment is intended to be a comparative study between a morbid declining democracy, versus a real and young democracy. But Zionist propaganda does not want you to think for yourself.

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By Quy Tran, December 21, 2006 at 11:35 am #
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How much the CIA pay for this clandestin operation ?

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