Iran students heckle Ahmadinejad

[Logan13]

Iran students heckle Ahmadinejad
Dec 11, 2006
AFP

Iranian students have disrupted a speech by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at a prestigious Tehran university, setting fire to his picture and heckling him.
"Some students chanted radical slogans and inflamed the atmosphere of the meeting" at the Amir Kabir University, said the semi-official Fars news agency on Monday, which is close to Ahmadinejad.

"A small number of students shouted 'death to the dictator' and smashed cameras of state television but they were confronted by a bigger group of students in the hall chanting: 'We support Ahmadinejad'," it said.

It was the latest in a series of student demonstrations in recent days, the first time in least two years that such protests have taken place on this scale at Iranian universities.

Ahmadinejad responded by describing those students chanting the slogans as an "oppressive" minority.

"A small number of people who claim there is oppression are creating oppression and do not let the majority hear (my) words," he said.

According to the student news agency ISNA, Ahmadinejad responded to the students' chants of "students can die but they do not accept degradation" by lashing out at the United States.

"Today, the worst type of dictatorship in the world is the American dictatorship which has been clothed in human rights," he said.

"Our students are free and they fight and die but do not accept the foreigners' missions or bend to them," he added.

"It is my honour to burn for the sake of the nation's ideals and defend the system," Ahmadinejad was quoted as telling protesters who set fire his picture, ISNA said.

"Americans must know that even if Ahmadinejad's body is burnt a thousand times for this purpose, Ahmadinejad will not retreat even a centimetre from these ideals."

The Iranian president's speech was also interrupted by firecrackers, ISNA said.

A group of Amir Kabir's top students had earlier expressed objections to the government's economic and political agenda as well as "confrontation with student activists and ridding universities of independent lecturers".

"Bankrupting the country's industry, inflation, distribution of poverty, defacement of the country's international image and playing with the nation's fate in diplomatic issues," were among the points brought up in a statement.

"University is alive and criticises the government," it added, according to ISNA.

The incident came after hundreds of Iranian students protested at Amir Kabir on Sunday to denounce a crackdown on a reformist-led university association, according to the ISNA news agency.

Between 2,000 and 3,000 students also demonstrated at Tehran University on Wednesday to mark students' day, chanting slogans such as "for freedom and against despotism", ISNA reported at the time.

[FearlessFighter]

Sorry but this has already been posted:

Iran students heckle Ahmadinejad

The only difference is that your story is from 'AFP'.

[edit]
Nonetheless, the news stories both originate from the same 'source'...

[Logan13]

perhaps, but I have an AP video link with mine. It is at Foxnews, and you have to wait for the short commercial. First article "Death to Dictator", hit the top video link. BTW, Associted Press was on the ground, that is where the video comes from.

http://www.foxnews.com/

[eliteforce]

This is proof that 'freedom' in Iran already exists, it's already a democracy, they have elections with a multiparty system, they have demonstrations and the police use riot gear and water canons to disperse them (not machine guns). So what the Americans consider 'democracy' - a racist aphartied state(Israel), an Imperialist regime controled by America(Iraq), a '2' party system where most of the seats of congress are fixed and then the voter has basically no power, and the government is basically selected by the corporate aristocracy and the govt itself (USA) and the mainstream media is effectivly controled.

So Iran is the democracy and the USA/Israel is an axis of sham democracy and facism.

[Logan13]

This is proof that 'freedom' in Iran already exists, it's already a democracy, they have elections with a multiparty system, they have demonstrations and the police use riot gear and water canons to disperse them (not machine guns). So what the Americans consider 'democracy' - a racist aphartied state(Israel), an Imperialist regime controled by America(Iraq), a '2' party system where most of the seats of congress are fixed and then the voter has basically no power, and the government is basically selected by the corporate aristocracy and the govt itself (USA) and the mainstream media is effectivly controled.

So Iran is the democracy and the USA/Israel is an axis of sham democracy and facism.

Somehow, I do not think that this Iranian journalist would agree with your assessment. But hey, you probably know more than he does about freedom in Iran.....
This man lives in Iran and has been arrested many times for printing and posting articles that go against Iran's agenda.

Omid Memarian
http://www.memarian.info/en_articles.asp
(London, October 19, 2006) – Human Rights Watch will honor Omid Memarian, an Iranian human rights activist who has creatively used the internet to press for a more open and democratic political regime in Iran, with it highest honor, the Human Rights Watch Defender Award, on November 7.
Memarian embodies the new breed of human rights defenders who are pushing the boundaries of freedom of expression in Iran by working on the internet. He worked as a journalist for reformist newspapers until the Iranian government cracked down on the press and shuttered most of the independent papers.

Refusing to admit defeat, Memarian shifted to the internet, pioneering a new medium of human rights reporting. His blog is dedicated to social, cultural and civil society issues in Iran.

“Omid Memarian represents the generation of human rights defenders in Iran who came of age during the last decade of promised reforms,” said Hadi Ghaemi, Iran researcher with Human Rights Watch’s Middle East and North Africa division. “As an insightful and popular commentator, he represents a threat to the current hardliners who are rolling back basic human rights in Iran.”

As a result of his public defense of human rights, Memarian was arrested with more than 20 other bloggers in October 2004. He was detained in solitary confinement, tortured repeatedly, and forced to make false confessions. Following protests from the international community, including Human Rights Watch, Memarian was released in December 2004. Human Rights Watch worked closely with his colleagues to campaign for his release.

The Iranian government’s use of torture in detention has effectively destroyed the country’s independent media, but Memarian has refused to back down and continues to blog. Since his release from prison, Memarian has worked with Human Rights Watch to expose arbitrary detentions, torture and mistreatment of prisoners in Iran at great personal risk.

“After the reformist press was crushed, blogs have become one of the last remaining outlets for free expression in Iran,” said Ghaemi.

“Omid has been an outspoken advocate of freedom of the press and democratic reforms even after he was detained and tortured by security forces in the past year,” said Ghaemi. “Human Rights Watch is honoring Omid to show solidarity with all the writers and activists across the Middle East who are using the web to break down government controls on human rights information and free expression.”

Omid Memarian
wikpedia.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omid_Memarian
Omid Memarian (in Persian: امید معماریان)is a progressive Iranian journalist and social activist. He was awarded the Golden pen at the National Press Festival in Iran at 2001. He has been blogging since 2001, in English and Persian. He used to work with Hayat-e No (New Life), Yas-e-no (New Jasmin), Vaqaye-e Ettefaqiyeh (Occurring Events) and Sharq (or Shargh = East) daily newspapers in Iran.

Omid is Editor in Chief of Volunteer Actors Quarterly which deals with civil society issues. He is a blogger which blogs on several blogs. He was detained in Iran from October 10, to December 2004. [1] On 10 October, journalist Omid Memarian was arrested on the orders of the Tehran Prosecutor's Office's Ninth Chamber. Memarian was detained for posting articles on several reformist Websites and was accused of "spreading propaganda against the regime, threatening national security, incitement to rebellion and insulting leading figures in the regime." But he had still not been charged. Five days later the authorities also searched Memarian's home and confiscated his personal notes and computer. Shortly before his arrest, Memarian had tried to attend a conference on Iranian civil society in New York. He had obtained a US visa, but en route in Frankfurt, US authorities refused to allow him to board his flight, saying that he was on a "no-fly" list. They provided no other information. He was arrested a few days after his return to Tehran. [2] Omid Memarian is currently a visiting scholar at UC-Berkeley school of journalism .[3]

[eliteforce]

It's always easy to find a rat, like those rats the Americans found to be puppets in Iraq, traitors. So whats this guys problem, you can't say anything you want in Iranian newspapers-when you have the controlled American zionist media beaming in all over the place with their 'perspective' it's hadly a fair playing field for information. Usually guys like Omid are working for the Americans, thats why he conference on Iranian civil society in New York New York can mind their own god damn business, I guess their such big experts on Iranian civil society that he needs to go their and ask New York people whats best for Iranian civil society, omid smells money and thats what he's after. Everywhere in the world I go I see CNN and Fox but never AlJazeera or Iran TV.

[singern]

. So whats this guys problem, you can't say anything you want in Iranian newspapers-when you have the controlled American zionist media beaming in all over the place with their 'perspective' it's hadly a fair playing field for information. Everywhere in the world I go I see CNN and Fox but never AlJazeera or Iran TV.

Why do you to need to constantly use the term Zionist as if it’s a bad thing. Would it be cool if I used the term "Islamo fascist fudge-packer" or perhaps I just come out and say those "fuking Muslim animals" . If you give respect you may just receive some...

And the reason you wont see Iran TV is simple, Did yo ever wonder why there are no Iranian bodybuilders on this site? Did you ever wonder why there are no Iranian news programs on cable or even satellite, Did you ever wonder why there the only video coming out of Iran (like the student protest) is coming from secretly filmed video which has to be smuggled out of the country?

Yes they have freedom, I just haven't seen any sign of it yet.....

[Logan13]

It's always easy to find a rat, like those rats the Americans found to be puppets in Iraq, traitors. So whats this guys problem, you can't say anything you want in Iranian newspapers-when you have the controlled American zionist media beaming in all over the place with their 'perspective' it's hadly a fair playing field for information. Usually guys like Omid are working for the Americans, thats why he conference on Iranian civil society in New York New York can mind their own god damn business, I guess their such big experts on Iranian civil society that he needs to go their and ask New York people whats best for Iranian civil society, omid smells money and thats what he's after. Everywhere in the world I go I see CNN and Fox but never AlJazeera or Iran TV.

You call this guy a rat? Perhaps he came to America to get away from the oppressive regiem Iran. I honestly believe that your reaction to this will marginilize any future opinions you may have on the subject. This is like me calling Joe Darby a "rat"..........

[eliteforce]

I don't know that much about Omid but there are rats (like the Chalabi in Iraq) that know damn well that the Americans have a racist agenda in Palestine, and that they want to overthrow their government and destroy their country in the process like they did to Iraq so they can subjugate it and rape it's natural resources; and thats the only reason they have some stupid conference on Iranian or Arab society in NY; Arab society doesn't have 1 in 32 of it's citizens in prison, or 'sexual preditors, or 16,000 murders a year..why would they possibly need a conference in New York about their god damn civil society..they can handle their own society and the Americans can mind their own fking business for a change.

Zionism is a bad thing, it's racist..mostly white people coming to that country pretty much all of a sudden in the 1930's and then forcing out the indeginous population and craeting a racist 'jewish state', and then today we have what even ex-US president Jimmy Carter calls a racist aphartied state worse than the very villified former South Africa, and it's alot worse. I understand the benfits of Europeans and Americans going to a developing country and developing the country, but you don't screw the indeginous population in the process, the problem was never Jews coming to Palestine, the problem is Zionism- A racist supremist ideology.

[Logan13]

I don't know that much about Omid but there are rats (like the Chalabi in Iraq) that know damn well that the Americans have a racist agenda in Palestine, and that they want to overthrow their government and destroy their country in the process like they did to Iraq so they can subjugate it and rape it's natural resources; and thats the only reason they have some stupid conference on Iranian or Arab society in NY; Arab society doesn't have 1 in 32 of it's citizens in prison, or 'sexual preditors, or 16,000 murders a year..why would they possibly need a conference in New York about their god damn civil society..they can handle their own society and the Americans can mind their own fking business for a change.

Zionism is a bad thing, it's racist..mostly white people coming to that country pretty much all of a sudden in the 1930's and then forcing out the indeginous population and craeting a racist 'jewish state', and then today we have what even ex-US president Jimmy Carter calls a racist aphartied state worse than the very villified former South Africa, and it's alot worse. I understand the benfits of Europeans and Americans going to a developing country and developing the country, but you don't screw the indeginous population in the process, the problem was never Jews coming to Palestine, the problem is Zionism- A racist supremist ideology.

If you are going to align yourself with Jimmy Fuking Carter than I honestly believe that we have nothing left to talk about.........