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July 12 -16, 1999 / Tir 21-25, 1378

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* Poetry: Book of Kings
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* Protests: Now what?
* Protests: Gridlock
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Friday
July 15, 1999

Poetry

    Book of kings
    A tribute to Iranian students

By Laleh Khalili
July 15, 1999
The Iranian

we have shambled eternally
through the seven feats and defeats of Rotsam
throughout this interminable redundancy of virile destruction
and murderous patriotism

we - in idolatry of our innumerable heroes -
have slaughtered our sons on city streets
and in dark chambers of infamy,
we have gone unpunished but by memories of murder
damning our eternal existence,
and we will
will
will
be judged and decapitated through
the inevitability of fratricide ... GO TO FEATURE

Protests

Deja Vu
20 years after the revolution

By Arash Markazi
July 16, 1999
The Iranian

A young man holds an unconscious classmate close to his chest as he runs with several thousand other student protesters. Young women wrapped in linen from head to toe, attempt to run through the commotion. What was to be a peaceful demonstration had turned into mass hysteria and total chaos...

The current protesters, however, do not hold the same memory of what happened twenty years ago. That's because many of them are not a day older than twenty themselves. More than half of Iran's population was born after the revolution, and this youthful contingent was the main reason why Mohammed Khatami won the 1997 presidential election ... GO TO FEATURE

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Thursday
July 15, 1999

Protests

Now what?
Three possibilities following the student protests

By Mark J. Gasiorowski
July 15, 1999
The Iranian

I think Ayatollah Khamenei certainly cannot sit back and play on the dissatisfaction that has emerged. Even if the student demonstrators are crushed in the next few days, Khamenei and the conservatives now have a major problem on their hands. If they do not make major concessions to the students' demands, the unrest that we have seen in the last few days will almost certainly reemerge, and it may well spread beyond the universities. If so, the conservatives will be forced to rely increasingly on repression, transforming the populist Islamic regime that has existed since the revolution into an Islamic dictatorship. This may work in the short term, but in the long term I believe it is simply not viable. Iran is not China, and the Tienanmen Square approach just will not work there ... GO TO FEATURE

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Wednesday
July 14, 1999

Protests

Gridlock
Student protests, the government and the constitution

By Guive Mirfendereski
July 14, 1999
The Iranian

Iran is in the grip of the early stages of a constitutional reform movement, which is brought about, inevitably and unavoidably, by a constitution which, as a friend has put it, is a blueprint for gridlock. Gridlock, maintained for too long, even if it is in the natural order of constitutional checks and balances, is a recipe for disaster, because nothing of good can get accomplished, while everything evil remains unaffected ... GO TO FEATURE

Also see latest protest photos

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Tuesday
July 13, 1999

Protests

Great pain
Eyewitness accounts of tension in Tehran

July 13, 1999
The Iranian

Eyewitness reports by of recent student protests. The first two are from today's events near Tehran University, written by S.M.A. The other is from a few nights ago originally posted on the Iran News alias, forwarded by Payman Arabshahi. Also see photos from various news agencies.

Report 1

Near the University of Tehran. Noon.

Two major prongs on the east and west side of the university making evasive moves. Just two hours ago there was nothing to report. Now, burning tires and newspapers, refuge from tear gas

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Monday
July 12, 1999

Cover story

The spark
... that ignited nation-wide student protests

July 12, 1999
The Iranian

An eyewitness account of the scene of an incident that sparked nation-wide protests at universities. On Thursday July 8 the security forces backed by hardline thugs clashed with student protesters at Tehran University's dorms in Amirabad. The students were protesting against the closure of the moderate Salam newspaper when they were attacked. Scores of students were injured and hundreds were arrested. The unconfirmed death toll is at least three. (See photo index)

The attack began at the dorms closest to the main gate. Some students ran to a set of dorms further inside the compound, and they were pursued. The worst damage was to the inner dorms -- dorm 20, particularly. Room 40 in that building was completely burned. I mean BURNED! It was a horrific site.

In the corridors, my eyes felt irritated. Tear gas! Most rooms were trashed. Windows broken, doors kicked in. There were signs of fire in the corridors -- the size that one would expect for the purpose of fighting off tear gas. Around the campus there was plenty of broken glass ... GO TO FEATURE

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