The Kaleme site reported that around 1,000 students rallied
at Tehran's Polytechnic University on Tuesday, an annual "students
day" which was marked by several other small demonstrations at various
campuses around Iran.
Authorities have cracked down on the opposition, which the
government says are "seditionists" backed by foreign enemies, since
huge rallies held for a few months after the contested re-election of President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in June 2009.
The editor of pro-reform newspaper Sharq and four of his
colleagues were arrested in the paper's newsroom on Tuesday on the day it published
a special report on the situation of students.
On another occasion which could provide a rallying point for
opposition supporters, a website called for people to gather on Thursday at the
grave of the late dissident cleric Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri to
mark the first anniversary of his death according to the Islamic calendar.
An architect of the Islamic Revolution, Montazeri was named
in the 1980s to succeed revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini as
Iran's top authority, but fell out with him over the mass execution of
prisoners.
Protesters clashed with police at memorial ceremonies held
after his death, aged 87, in December 2009.
Saham News, the website of Mehdi Karoubi, one of the
candidates beaten by Ahmadinejad in an election the opposition says was rigged,
carried a call for people to gather in an article which described Montazeri as
"the moral father of the green movement,” a reference to the chosen color
of the reformist opposition.
