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Mahmoud Vahidnia

Stands up to Khamenei and asks tough questions

A lone student at a gathering of the country's academic elite took the unprecedented step of criticizing Leader Ali Khamenei in his presence on Wednesday morning, according to the Office for the Preservation and Publication of the Works of Grand Ayatollah Khamenei and opposition news sites. The young man, identified as 'a mathematics student at Sharif University and a winner at the International Mathematics Olympiad' by Mowjeh Sabzeh Azadi, made his remarks after the official speakers had completed their speeches and before Khamenei was to make his address. The gathering at Khamenei's complex in north Tehran preceded the 3rd National Conference of Young Elites. The student spoke for close to 20 minutes despite the protests of some of the spectators. As Khamenei looked on, he critiqued the state radio and television networks; the stifling security climate surrounding the press; the inability to voice criticism against the Supreme Leader; and the power structure in the country embodied by the Guardian Council and the Assembly of Experts, according to Mowjeh Sabzeh Azadi >>>

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Mardom Mazloom

Dorood bar Mahmood Vahidnia

by Mardom Mazloom on

He did what Kaveh did to Zahak thousands years before. He'll be the new Persian hero from now. He's incredibly intelligent and courageous. This guy makes us all proud to be Iranian again, that's much more than making Facebook or Google. That's giving new breath to millions of people suffocating under IRI.


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I was sitting in a talk by

by shirbacheh on

I was sitting in a talk by facebook founder and a Harvard math graduate, Jeff Hammerbacher,  just an hour ago. Thinking about what a different treatment towards Mahmood Vahidnia  and this guy, I almost had tears in my eyes. Vahidnia could have been a founder of another Facebook or google if not born in Iran. What a shame that our brains have to go waste fighting this medieval goverment instead of doing brilliant jobs that they are capable of.


tqa81

What Amazing Courage

by tqa81 on

Incredible!!!!!! another symbol for the voice of moderation and freedom. I'm suprised he was allowed full 20 mins to criticize the Leader in his presence. Very well articulated criticisms indeed. I hope he's ok

Barzakh

Hukook al-Insan

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Shifteh Ansari

فریاد الله‌اکبر دانشجویان دانشگاه شریف در حمایت از منتقد حق‌طلب،

Shifteh Ansari


//www.mowjcamp.com/article/id/55399

جمعه شب (۸
آبان ۸۸) تعداد زیادی از دانشجویان ساکن خوابگاه طرشت ۳ (از خوابگاه‌های
دانشگاه صنعتی شریف) با سر دادن شعارهای «الله‌اکبر»، «یاحسین، میرحسین» و
«مرگ بر دیکتاتور» نشان دادند که شعله اعتراضات خاموش نشده است.

به
نظر می‌رسد شعارگویی جمعه شب در حمایت از سخنان روز چهارشنبه محمود
وحیدنیا، دانشجوی ریاضی دانشگاه شریف، در دیدار «نخبگان جوان» با رهبری
باشد. (برای اطلاع از جزئیات آن جلسه، اینجا را کلیک کنید).
موج سبز آزادی در تماس با تعدادی از فعالان دانشجویی دانشگاه صنعتی شریف
مطلع شد دانشجویان تصمیم دارند در صورت عدم حضور محمود وحیدنیا در دانشگاه
در روز شنبه، در محوطه دانشگاه تجمع کنند. روز جمعه اخباری دهان به دهان
می‌گشت که تلفن همراه محمود وحیدنیا خاموش است و خانواده او هم در پاسخ به
دوستانش گفته‌اند حال محمود خوب است، اما نمی‌تواند به تلفن جواب دهد.

 


Anonymouse

Kargar I second ur motion & your text copy & paste in Behnevis!

by Anonymouse on

دردو بلای این بخوره تو سر همهٔ آنهائ که اینجا نشستن میگن لنگش کن.  

Everything is sacred


kargar

Amazing

by kargar on

dardo balaye een bokhore to sare hameye onayi ke inja neshestan migan lengesh kon. 

 


Onlyiran

Not so fast

by Onlyiran on

I first read about this on a Persian language site.  One of the comments in response to this article was (I'm paraphrasing) "do you really think that this was a truley spontaneous and non-staged event?  Do you think that they would have allowed such criticsim to go on without stopping the guy?"  The commentator also mentioned that the Shah had pulled a smiliar [staged] thing during his time, and the person who was the "critic" later on (still during Shah's time) became the head of Iran's national TV. 

I personally tend to agree with the guy.  I think that this may have been staged to give the appearance of freedom of speech, especially in light of the fact that the whole thing was broadcast on IRI's TV.


Anonymouse

Maybe Iranian of the Year! I hope they show in Iran not just VOA

by Anonymouse on

Everything is sacred.


Fred

Don't touch him

by Fred on

The incredibly brave man who stood in front and blocked the movement of column of Red Army tanks in Tiananmen Square has nothing on Vahid for number of reasons. The most important one being the Chinese man’s face and name remained unknown giving him a modicum of safety from government reprisal, not in Vahid’s case whose full name and face is known.

It is like he knowingly painted a bull’s-eye on his body for the sycophantic Basiji/Gurad thugs to aim at, then went into the viper’s den, stood up and cut him to size.

The Head Rapist Khamenei should know anything his thugs do to Vahid, it is as though the Head Rapist has personally done it and will have to answer for one more count at the ICC.


yolanda

.......

by yolanda on

Thank you for posting the video and article. The best strategy to ensure this student's safety is to keep him in the news.....I recall the reason Ahmad Batebi, 1999 student protester, did not get executed is because his picture was on the cover of "The Economist" magazine.

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I hope nothing will happen to him.


Jahanshah Javid

Courage

by Jahanshah Javid on

Tremendous courage. I'm speechless.


Zal

From the blood of the fallen, more heroes are rising

by Zal on

Amazingly brave Iranian. islamic thugs and ahbar must have tried to pretend they listen to people and it back fired. I heard unconfirmed rumors that Mahmoud Vahidnia has disappeared since yesterday. islamic thugs will be facing more Kaveye Ahangar's everyday.