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		<title>A Brave Student Speaks Up [Persian]</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/07/09/a-brave-student-speaks-up-persian/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/07/09/a-brave-student-speaks-up-persian/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 19:09:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lilli Parvin</dc:creator>
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A brave student speaks up at Elm Va Sanat University.
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		<title>Students Protest to Commemorate the Attacks of their Dormitories</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/06/14/students-commemorate-the-attacks-on-their-dormitories-one-year-ago/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/06/14/students-commemorate-the-attacks-on-their-dormitories-one-year-ago/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:56:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lilli Parvin</dc:creator>
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Students at the University of Tehran protest in commemoration of the brutal attacks on their dormitories one year ago on June 14th, 2009.
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		<title>Protest at Shahid Beheshti University</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/05/15/protest-at-shahid-beheshti-university/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/05/15/protest-at-shahid-beheshti-university/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 16:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lilli Parvin</dc:creator>
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A brave female protestor keeps videotaping from the very middle of the crowd during a protest on May 10, 2010, that started at Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran.
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		<title>Three More Faculty Members Dismissed For Their Political Orientation</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/04/14/three-more-faculty-members-dismissed-for-their-political-orientation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/04/14/three-more-faculty-members-dismissed-for-their-political-orientation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:16:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One week after the dismissal of Dr. Morteza Mardiha from his faculty post at Allameh Tabatabee University, the dismissal of two Elm-o-San’at University professors adds a new dimension to the campaign to dismiss faculty members who have different viewpoints from the government, or who have supported students during student protests.
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		<title>Iranian professors fired from universities</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/04/13/iranian-professors-fired-from-universities/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/04/13/iranian-professors-fired-from-universities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:49:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two Iranian university professors were fired from Iran University of Science &#38; Technology, Kalameh Website reports.
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		<title>University is Alive &amp; Standing Firm</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/30/university-is-alive-is-standing-firm/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/30/university-is-alive-is-standing-firm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:56:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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		<title>High School Girls Singing Yareh Dabestani</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/21/high-school-girls-singing-yareh-dabestani/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/21/high-school-girls-singing-yareh-dabestani/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:02:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lilli Parvin</dc:creator>
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High school girls, in Mashhad, singing Yareh Dabestani and holding green balloons in the air.
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		<title>Slogans on Walls of Sharif University</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/15/slogans-on-walls-of-sharif-university/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/15/slogans-on-walls-of-sharif-university/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lilli Parvin</dc:creator>
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Students cover the walls of their university with slogans in preparation for Chahar Shanbeh Souri.
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		<title>Workers &amp; Students 3/9</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/09/economy-39/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/09/economy-39/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:25:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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GVF:  Workers&#8217; wages not paid for six months
GVF &#8212; An MP from the city of Arak has spoken of job losses at a plant of a company called Abangan in the city of Arak.
Ahmad Lotfi Ashtiani who represents Arak in the Iranian Parliament (Majlis) told the Iranian Labour News Agency (ILNA), that ceding the company [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Green Student Confronts Islamic Regime Agent at Columbia University</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/04/green-student-confronts-islamic-regime-agent-at-columbia-university/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/04/green-student-confronts-islamic-regime-agent-at-columbia-university/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:49:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Green</dc:creator>
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		<title>Protest at Elm Va Sanat University</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/04/protest-at-elm-va-sanat-university-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/04/protest-at-elm-va-sanat-university-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 05:27:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lilli Parvin</dc:creator>
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On March 3rd students came out to protest at Elm Va Sanat University in Tehran.
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		<title>The Student Movement’s Approach vis-à-vis the Green Movement</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/03/the-student-movement%e2%80%99s-approach-vis-a-vis-the-green-movement/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/03/the-student-movement%e2%80%99s-approach-vis-a-vis-the-green-movement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:21:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Mostafa Khosravi 
March 1st, 2010









// 






What is known in Iran today as the ‘Green Movement’ may be viewed as the product of years of continuous activity by the women’s, student, and worker’s movements alongside the country’s Reform movement. By keeping respect for existing political leaders [such as the Reformist presidential candidates], the Green Movement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More forced academic retirements</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/01/more-forced-academic-retirements/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/03/01/more-forced-academic-retirements/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:51:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lilli Parvin</dc:creator>
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More forced academic retirements: this time Tabriz University
Following the forced retirement of experienced academics, three university professors from Tabriz University have been faced with forced retirements.



According to an opposition website, Dr Karim Hossein Zadeh Dalir, Dr Firouz Jamali and Mohammad Reza Pourmohammadi have all been forced into retirement.
It is worth noting that these Tabriz University [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CNN: Video exposes Iran crackdown</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/02/25/cnn-video-exposes-iran-crackdown/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/02/25/cnn-video-exposes-iran-crackdown/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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New video purportedly shows violence, previously denied by Iran, at Tehran University after 2009&#8217;s disputed election. 
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		<title>Yousef Rashidi</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/02/23/yousef-rashidi/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/02/23/yousef-rashidi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 03:37:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Political Prisoners]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[.
This is what bravery looks like&#8230;
 
Dear readers,
I received this via an emial and can&#8217;t verify its accuracy. Yousef Rashidi, a brave political freedom fighter, is on a hunger strike in a jail in Iran.  In the picture above, he is holding a sign protesting Ahmadinejad&#8217;s visit to his university in 2006.  It says &#8220;Fascist [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1008</slash:comments>
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		<title>New Video of what Happened in University Dorms in Iran 25 Khordad 88 June 15, 2009 [Persian]</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/02/23/new-video-of-what-happened-in-university-dorms-in-iran-25-khordad-88-june-15-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/02/23/new-video-of-what-happened-in-university-dorms-in-iran-25-khordad-88-june-15-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:38:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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ICHR Iran: BBC Persian television station aired a video clip today, which was taped by the attackers of Tehran University dormitories on June 15, 2009, during the post-elections protests. The video,, which has been recorded by attackers themselves clearly demonstrates that police and plainclothes forces made the attack in complete coordination and brutally beat, insulted, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Imprisoned Student Reveals Details of Unfair Prosecution</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/02/22/imprisoned-student-reveals-details-of-unfair-prosecution/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/02/22/imprisoned-student-reveals-details-of-unfair-prosecution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:42:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lilli Parvin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran has obtained a copy of a letter by an imprisoned student, sentenced to 15 years, which demonstrates the utter lack of evidence against him as well as the arbitrary nature of the show trial convicting him. The letter, by Seyed Zia  Nabavi, is written to the head [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pressure Mounts to Dissolve Iran’s Largest Student Organization</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/02/18/pressure-mounts-to-dissolve-iran%e2%80%99s-largest-student-organization/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/02/18/pressure-mounts-to-dissolve-iran%e2%80%99s-largest-student-organization/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:16:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lilli Parvin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pressures continue on Iran’s largest student organization, Daftar Tahkim Vahdat (Office to Strengthen Unity). Earlier in the week, news came that Amin Nazari, a member of the central council of the student group and the head of its human rights division was arrested, despite his poor health. Till today, no details about his situation have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iran&#8217;s Revolution Devoured By Its Own Children</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/02/09/irans-revolution-devoured-by-its-own-children/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/02/09/irans-revolution-devoured-by-its-own-children/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The young people born into this clerical dictatorship are on an irrevocable path to democracy and freedom.
&#8220;We were born during the war with Iraq, when there was not enough milk powder for us as babies; when we finished high school, the Basij, the regime&#8217;s paramilitary thugs, received preferential admission to the universities; when we graduated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iran students boycott exams to protest disputed election</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/01/22/iran-students-boycott-exams-to-protest-disputed-election/</link>
		<comments>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/01/22/iran-students-boycott-exams-to-protest-disputed-election/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:52:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free Iran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Students in Iran have been boycotting end-of-term exams as they continue to show their opposition to the outcome of last year&#8217;s disputed presidential election.
The move comes a month after thousands of students held street demonstrations to protest against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad&#8217;s re-election last June.
Students have been at the forefront of the protests which initially saw [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iran university professors denounce crackdown</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2010/01/04/iran-university-professors-denounce-crackdown/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:11:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[IND:  What brave individuals!  They are risking their jobs and possibly prison time and torture.
Dozens of Tehran University professors appealed to Iran&#8217;s supreme leader to halt the ongoing violence against opposition protesters, a pro-reform Web site reported Monday.
The letter to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei &#8211; signed by 88 professors &#8211; was the latest daring challenge to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iranian opposition grows beneath surface</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 17:43:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iran&#8217;s opposition movement has yet to produce a charismatic leader but has a diverse and growing group of organizers, including numerous students and veterans of an abortive 1999 uprising, Iran specialists say.
While the government focuses on these two men, however, a new generation of activists is working behind the scenes to sustain the movement&#8217;s momentum.
&#8220;There [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Regime Wages a Quiet War on &#8216;Star Students&#8217; of Iran</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2009/12/31/regime-wages-a-quiet-war-on-star-students-of-iran/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:15:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[




In most places, being a star means ranking top of the class, but in Iran it means your name appears on a list of students considered a threat by the intelligence ministry. It also means a partial or complete ban from education.
The term comes from the fact that some students have learned of their status [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What I See on the Frontline in Iran</title>
		<link>http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/2009/12/18/what-i-see-on-the-frontline-in-iran/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:08:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was one of those student leaders. In the regime&#8217;s view, I was considered to be an architect of a student uprising on July 9, 1999, an uprising that was a true turning point in the movement for democracy. Students like me began to attack the regime itself, rather than simply calling for reform. And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>United Students of Iran</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:49:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The large campus protests in more than 15 cities across Iran on Dec. 7 in celebration of Student Day, which coincided with the six-month milestone in the country&#8217;s enduring pro-democracy movement, attested to the role of students at the forefront of the Iranian opposition.
Unlike the country&#8217;s atomized labor unions and relatively younger women&#8217;s rights groups, [...]]]></description>
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