Monday, December 07, 2009

Discomfort In Iran

Sometimes the other shoe drops and you put it on the wrong foot. Of course, I'm underwhelmed with sympathy for the Iranian regime.

Students clash with riot police as protests erupt on Iranian campuses - Times Online: "Violence erupted in Tehran today as thousands of students and opposition activists staged fresh protests against a regime they consider illegitimate.

Riot police using tear gas and batons charged demonstrators in two of the capital’s main squares. Security forces flooded the streets and sealed off universities. They were reported to be firing in the air and bringing in water cannon, but they still failed to prevent students demonstrating on campuses across Tehran and in other Iranian cities.

The authorities cut off internet services and took down the mobile telephone network in some places, but snatches of grainy footage still reached the West..."

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