Resilient Iranians still dream of a new revolution | World news | The Guardian 3.0 star rating

Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/11/iran-new-revolution-dream

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Tehran University students have been filing into their classes past giant posters of Ayatollah Khomeini and the stern slogans of the Islamic revolution for the last 30 years. But the angry scenes on the university's sprawling campus this week seemed like a throwback to another age.
"Marg bar diktatur" (Death to dictatorship), they chanted in their thousands, waving green banners and posters behind high canvas screens tied to the railings as basij miltiamen and revolutionary guards prowled the streets outside.
Some held up Iranian flags with the symbol of the Islamic republic cut out of the middle.

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Created by DrPot on 12 December 2009

DrPot's thoughts:

We need more world focus on these demonstrations to help protect them. Brave people, but those who want freedom from oppression always are.

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