IRAN: Crack-down on protestors and students

Iran's infamous basiji attacked opposition demonstrators on Wedenesady, the 30th anniversary of the seizure of the US Embassy in Tehran, reports Asia News. Some people were reportedly killed and at least 35 were arrested, many of them students from Tehran University, as anti- and pro-government supporters clashed at the annual rally.

Shouting "We shall fight; we shall die, but we shall take back Iran", students tried to join anti-regime demonstrators by forcing their way through the gates of the university's housing quarter, which was patrolled by Revolutionary Guards.

Demonstrations were held in Tehran, Shiraz, Isfahan and Mashhad. During protests in Tehran, tear gas was used and shots fired as regime supporters used sticks and knives to subdue and arrest protesters. Sympathisers of ex presidential election candidate Mir Hussein Moussavi and security forces clashed in the capital, scene of a bloody crackdown against the green wave that swelled against President Ahmadinejad after his contested re-election.
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Meanwhile, the National Council of Resistance of Iran said in a statement that students at both Tehran and Sharif universities brought down the universities' gates to join the demonstration. The universities had been surrounded by security forces and the gates shut, it said.

In another statement the NCRI said students at the University of Yasuj in western Iran had protested over the expulsion of four of their colleagues in response to an earlier student protest. And at the University of Hormazgan in southern Iran, students staged a sit-in and chanted anti-government slogans to protest the death of a male student because of lack of proper medical care and facilities.