More protests in Tehran universities

Anti-government protests in Iran universities continued today as Sanati Sharif University students staged a demonstration while the science minister Kamran Daneshjou visited the campus.
Chanting slogans against the government and the leader of the Islamic Republic, hundreds of students demonstrated from 10 am until one in the afternoon, Radio Zamaneh was informed by a student activist at the location. He reported that at first 500 students gathered in front of the University’s main library and gradually more people joined the group.

The report goes on to say that to avoid the protesters, the Science Minister had to divert his route and refrain from entering the building where he was supposed to attend the launch of a new library. His deputy attended the said ceremony instead of him.

Yesterday hundreds of students gathered in protest to the government at Tehran University and in one occasion after leaving the campus were attacked by the anti-riot police.

Mindful of the recent mass protests over the June presidential elections and the controversy over the legitimacy of the consequent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad government, many conservative leaders, including the supreme leader, as well as heads of security forces had repeatedly warned students to stay away from protests and demonstrations in the new academic year which has just started.

So far it seems students have not heeded these warnings keeping alive the embers of the massive street protests that decried the alleged fraud in the June presidential elections.

The student protest take on further significance since the appointed Minister of Science was the head of Elections Headquarters in June.