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| Iran police make arrests on Student Day |
| 2009-12-08 |
| Authorities on Monday arrested a number of people who damaged public property as opposition protesters and students staged rallies on Student Day in Iran, reports say. December 7 marks the 1953 killings of three university students by the regime of Iran's last monarch during a protest against the visit of then US vice president Richard Nixon. Nixon was traveling to Iran a few months after a CIA-backed coup overthrew the country's democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq. The commemoration, meanwhile, provided opposition protesters with an opportunity to stage anti-government demonstrations. The Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) reported sporadic clashes between the protesters and security forces near the main campus of Tehran University. The report added that a group of rioters, wearing green clothes, destroyed the Vali Asr entrance of Amir Kabir University and attacked students inside the campus. Police, the report said, arrested a number of the rioters. During the riots, trash bins were set ablaze by the protesters, the Amir Kabir University's security post was trashed, and the bank on campus was attacked by stones, the report said. Students in response to the rioters chanted slogans, calling them "traitors." |
| Posted by:Fred |