Iran – Student Unrest at University in Tehran

Stop Fundamentalism, October 31 – Amid heightened tensions between Washington and Tehran after blacklisting of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards Corps by the US, Iranian university students walked out of their classrooms yesterday in objection to Ahmadinejad’s government new oppressive measures and arrests of student activists.

Staging a demonstration at Allameh University, about one thousand students chanted against Ahmadinejad while holding pictures of their previously arrested classmates.

Reports indicate clashes taking place at the campus when the security forces arrested six student demonstrators.

The whereabouts of those arrested, 5 males and one female, are currently unknown.