Ahmadinejad visits the US.

[Thac0man]

Ahmedinejad has just faced protests at an Iranian university (not for the first time) from students - so not winning any popularity contests at home, poor guy

But in conjunction with this rare event it seems the Presidents speech to the UN has also been subject to rare treatment at home. It seems his UN speech was censored - I kid you not, by Iranian authorities when broadcast in Iran. The reason, claimed in this article:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7037750.stm

is that in his UN speech Ahmadinajad inferred critism of Rafsajani, now chairman of the Assembly of Experts who oversee the Ayotollah.

Given the brutality of other crackdowns on students in the recent past, are these current student protests against the President gaining official toleration from the Ayotollah? Students chanting 'Death to the Dictator!' seems to be a suicidal thing to do unless the situtaion on the ground in Iran has changed considerably.

[seabhcan]

Ahmedinejad has just faced protests at an Iranian university (not for the first time) from students - so not winning any popularity contests at home, poor guy

But in conjunction with this rare event it seems the Presidents speech to the UN has also been subject to rare treatment at home. It seems his UN speech was censored - I kid you not, by Iranian authorities when broadcast in Iran. The reason, claimed in this article:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7037750.stm

is that in his UN speech Ahmadinajad inferred critism of Rafsajani, now chairman of the Assembly of Experts who oversee the Ayotollah.

Given the brutality of other crackdowns on students in the recent past, are these current student protests against the President gaining official toleration from the Ayotollah? Students chanting 'Death to the Dictator!' seems to be a suicidal thing to do unless the situtaion on the ground in Iran has changed considerably.

Hopefully the BBC reports of "rare" student protests will end this nonsense propagada that Iran is a dictatorship or that *laugh* Ahmedinijad is its dictator!

Search the BBC archive, there are an amazing number of reported "rare" protests in Iran.

[Thac0man]

Hopefully the BBC reports of "rare" student protests will end this nonsense propagada that Iran is a dictatorship or that *laugh* Ahmedinijad is its dictator!

Search the BBC archive, there are an amazing number of reported "rare" protests in Iran.

Student protests or rallies in Iran require a permit. They are indeed 'rare' events and have been subject to official violance which has resulted in deaths and injuries.

The most recent protest was extraordinary in the circumstances and given recent history since the crack down in 1999:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/420884.stm

.. and the university purges carried out in 2006:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6196069.stm

... or maybe thats all propoganda.....

[yanshuf]

Of course he should have been welcomed into the USA.