Iran’s student day protests at the Guardian live blog
Iranian opposition demonstrators resumed mass street protests in Iran on the day traditionally reserved for state-run protests at the U.S. embassy and were hit with a bloody resoinse. Protests took place in Tehran, Shiraz, Isfahan and elsewhere. The Guardian’s live blog has an account of how it all went.
The enduring demonstrations in Iran are getting very little attention partly due to state censorship, but in great effect because of misguided attention to the non-issue of the nuclear impasse. If you want to see change, get behind and support the people working on it there now.
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10.17am:
Riot police are seen violently attacking protesters in this video after about two minutes of chanting. Protesters were shouting slogans in praise of Karoubi and Mousavi and were calling for political prisoners to be released.10.32am:
Twenty people have been arrested and several injured in the southern city of Shiraz following clashes between protesters and the security forces, according to the reformist website Rahesabz, writes our former Tehran correspondent Robert Tait.10.39am:
New video purports to show protesters dressing bleeding head wounds after clashes with the security forces.
Brave people in the streets.
SEE: Iran’s student day protests.
Be reasonable. Even when your fury seems to gain control of you… Stick to those basic standards of justice.
