Iranian students hold protest

Tehran - Pro-reform students rallied yesterday on a Tehran campus, amid increasing signs that Iran's university activists are…

Tehran - Pro-reform students rallied yesterday on a Tehran campus, amid increasing signs that Iran's university activists are losing patience with the slow pace of change.

Hundreds of students packed a sports hall at Amir Kabir University in the city centre to denounce the judiciary for its crackdown on the independent press and the prosecution of leading reformist editors and politicians.

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