IRAN: THE LEFT OPPOSITION SPEAKS -- Against Bush, Against Ahmadinejad, For Oaxaca

Syndicated from Upping the Anti on Fri, 2007-03-02

An Interview with Bina Darabzand of Salam Democrat

by Bill Weinberg, WW4 REPORT

On December 12, 2006, as the Holocaust revisionism conference called by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad opened in Tehran, small but angry groups of students held protests—against both the conference and Ahmadinejad, burning his picture and chanting "down with the dictator." Scores of students marched at the Amir Kabir University of Technology (formerly Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran University and Sanandaj University in Kordistan province.