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Iranian Student Shouts Down Parliament Speaker


A video of a student in Shiraz shouting down the speaker of the Iranian parliament is doing the rounds. (The video has English subtitles.)

During the meeting last month, one of the students slammed Ali Larijani as "the speaker of the illegal parliament."

And then, according to the PajamasMedia blog:

The student, who then went on to complain about problems suffered by the Islamic students union, to the amazement of the audience, told Larijani: “Let me tell you about my grievances. I hate three things. 1. I hate Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. 2. I hate the way he tries to fool the people of Iran. 3. I hate his shinning halo (referring to Ahmadinejad’s claims that he felt he was surrounded by a halo during his speech to the U.N. General Assembly in 2005).


-- Luke Allnutt

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