Another Ahmadinejad speech turns into embarrassment

GVF -- Another unpublicised visit by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to an Iranian university has been followed by student protests; this time at the university campus of Shahid Beheshti University.

According to the Jaras opposition website, at least 1000 students at the university of Shahid Beheshti have staged protests at their university’s main square after learning about the illegitimate president’s visit to the university. They have been protesting the visit since 10am Monday 10 May.

The protesters have been chanting slogans in praise of opposition leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mahdi Karroubi and against Ahmadinejad, calling him a “dictator” and a “murderer of the nation.” Other chants called for the “coup government” to “resign.”

It has also been reported that there is a tight security presence at the university where six buses and a great number of government vehicles entered the university today.

Students at Shahid Beheshti University quickly gathered in front of the literature faculty after hearing about the news and marched towards the main square in greater numbers.

As the number of protesting students grew, around ten Basijis as well as the university’s security attempted to block the protesters and to prevent them from disrupting Ahmadinejad’s speech. Their confrontations led to clashes between the two groups and subsequent injuries among students.

It should be noted that Kamran Daneshjou, Ahmadinejad’s Minister of Science, Research, and Technology and other close aides were also accompanying him during his visit to Shahdi Beheshti University.

The only people being allowed inside the lecture hall where the speech will take were individuals who had been brought to the university on buses. 

A similar incident took place on International Labour Day when Ahmadinejad’s planned speech at Tehran University turned into an embarrassment when student’s learned about his sudden and unexpected appearance in campus.