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Student Protests In Iran
A group of Tehran students burned images of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as groups of Holocaust deniers, Ku Klux Klansmen and anti-Semitic fanatics gathered to "revise" what the Iranian president describes as "the myth" of the Holocaust.
The protest, held by 60 students as the president addressed an assembly at Tehran's Amir Kabir university, appear to be related to the Holocaust conference he is hosting. The students were also protesting against increased levels of repression since Ahmadinejad came to power last year. They have been the first signs of open dissent the regime has tolerated.
Students have complained about closure of a university Islamic society and the banning of some activists from classes, the Guardian reports. In the Times, however, the correspondent reports that one student spoke of the "shame" the president has brought upon Iran by inviting "Nazis and racists from around the world”.
As students burnt photos of him and called him a "dictator", Ahmadinejad told them he was willing to be burned to protect "the path of true freedom, independence and justice" and claimed that only America and its allies were dictators.
However, it isn't the US, Israel or Britain that have closed down Iran's internet and satellite access, banned countless books, forced women into Islamically-approved costume and threatened those who make sex videos with whipping.
And, as another protestor pointed out, the supposedly daring freedom to question Holocaust "myths" that Ahmadinejad has granted the various Nazis and nutcases visiting Tehran this week has never been extended to Iran's students, who are oppressed as never before.
Photo shows a student burning a photo of the president: From The Spirit of Man blog.
