Tehran Students Protest Against Dictatorship

SMCCDI (Information Service):

Hundreds of students of Tehran University gathered, yesterday night, in order to protest against the Islamic regime.

Slogans, such as, "Marg bar Jomhoori e Eslami" (Down with Islamic republic), "Marg bar Estebdad" (Down with repression), "Azadi, Azadi" (Freedom, Freedom), "Eslahtalab e bi khassyat, Khejalat, khejalat" (Incompetent reformist, shame, shame), "Na ghom khoobe, na kashoon, khak bar sar har do shoon" (Nor ghom is good, nor kashan, damned bee both - by making allusion to regime's both factions), "Moin e bikhassyat, khejalat, khejalat" (Moin the incompetent, shame, shame) and "Daneshjoo mirazmad, estebdad milarzad" (Student fights, regime shakes) were shouted by students.

Security forces encircled the area of the dorms and installed road blocks in order to avoid the spread of the action as it happened on July 9, 1999. Pieces of stone were thrown on security forces and militiamen who backed off from the doors by contenting to wider the perimeters of the protest action but containing it inside the university premises.

Several arrests were made lated in the night.

The protest action was initiated by a small group of students who are backing the regime's so-called pro-reform faction but soon was taken over by several hundreds of students seeking a secular regime.