Tehran: Iran's Students Day Marks 1953 Protest of Nixon Visit

Tehran: Iran's Students Day Marks 1953 Protest

PRESS TV, December 7, 2007

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Iran's English news service Press TV, on Students Day commemoration in Tehran, 12/07:

Iran commemorates Students Day
Fri, 07 Dec 2007 13:15:43

Students hated the CIA instigated coup against the Mossadegh government

The sixth of December is Iran's national Students Day in memory of protesting students at Tehran University, three of whom were killed.

Iranian students protested the dangerous amity between Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the-then shah of Iran and the-then US vice-President Richard Nixon.

The students' hatred of United States sprang from the CIA instigated coup d'etat against the government of Prime Minister Dr. Mohammad Mossadegh on August 18, 1953.

Nixon's trip to Iran in December 1953 fueled an increasing anti-American uprising in Iran; Tehran University students staged a demonstration on December 6, 1953. The police attacked students and fatally wounded three of them.

Iranian universities have always been an important platform for people's emancipation, freedom, and a humane society.

Prior to the Islamic Revolution these memorials always met with police interference. Since then, the government supported these annual events as an expression of the 'nation's strong disapproval of the US policy.'