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Iran Focus
 Tehran, Iran, Dec. 05 – Iranian students from Tehran’s University
of Science and Technology plan to
hold a demonstration on Tuesday against the refusal by authorities to
permit a gathering on campus on Wednesday to mark Students Day in Iran.
Several student unions in the university will take part in the
demonstration expected to start at noon on Tuesday.
Universities across Iran
have been instructed by authorities not to allow gatherings or special
events to mark the day. Iran’s
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
who was previously expected to address one such gathering in Tehran on the day has
since cancelled his speech.
A student activist from the Medical University of Gilan,
northern Iran, told a
state-run news agency that authorities had abruptly cancelled the permit
for a gathering on campus during the anniversary of the bloody suppression
of a rally outside Tehran
University in 1953.
On December 7, 1953, three students were shot dead by policemen during a
rally against the Shah’s dictatorship. The day has been named Students Day
and commemorated on campuses across Iran every year.
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