Anti-Climacus

LINK: For those who follow international human rights issues, Michael Ledeen again fights the good fight on Iran... this is news you won't get anywhere else.

"The demonstrations began on Saturday at 6:35 in the afternoon in Tehran. The pretext for the gathering was given by hundreds of cases of food poisoning, and the public revelation that students were being fed low-quality meat. Within an hour the security forces closed all streets leading to the university, and the students began singing the old Iranian national anthem ? banned by the mullahs. At 9 o'clock, ten bus loads of security forces arrived on the scene, and the thugs tried to force the students back into the university buildings, but they were driven back, as the students chanted "Hashemi (Rafsanjani), Pinochet, Iran will not be a Chile," along with "(failed reformist president) Khatami, resign!" and "referendum, referendum."

When the security forces were driven back, the students lit bonfires with wood and tires, at which point the security forces fired gas grenades at the crowds. The fighting went on until 1:30 in the morning. Thirty-seven students were arrested."