Sites Holmquist trys, and often fails, to go no more than a couple of days without visiting (some of which Holmquist regularly swipes links from without attribution)
"More than 10,000 people defied riot police to gather outside Teheran university in a show of support for reformist students and a sign of a wider dissatisfaction with the regime," writes Wendell Steavenson in today's Telegraph.While that is impressive the following bit should be kept in mind:
Teheran University has 50,000 students and most of those interviewed said they had gone to their classes as usual and had not been involved in the political activities during the day.
How popular the protesters are with those who don't protest is the real question. posted by micah holmquist at 12/09/2002 10:29:00 AM
