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1. 1 Snehal Shingavi Oct 9th, 2007 at 4:42 pm

   I read this piece this morning as well. I’m a little suspicious of the character of this protest (first, given it’s size — only 100 people) and given its reportage in the NY Times. Do you know anything about the group? In the past, when there have been “pro-democracy” protests at Tehran U, there have been two kinds. One that was explicitly anti-US imperialism and one that was not. I’m worried that this is the latter. Also, if these are connected to the Khatami faction of the Tehrani bourgeoisie as the article suggests (though I doubt how mow much is understood about the various political trends in Iran by the American media) then it would represent that wing of the intelligentsia and the bourgeoisie that thinks that Ahmedinejad should go so that Iran can normalize relations with the US and participate in America’s regional plans. I’d be curious to hear what you think.