Student stuns Iran by criticizing supreme leader - Truckers' Trucking Forum

Baack · **^ Top** #1 1 Week Ago

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BEIRUT – An unassuming college math student has become an unlikely hero to many in Iran for daring to criticize the country's most powerful man to his face.
Mahmoud Vahidnia has received an outpouring of support from government opponents for the challenge — unprecedented in a country where insulting supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is a crime punishable by prison.
Perhaps most surprising, the young math whiz has so far suffered no repercussions from the confrontation at a question-and-answer session between Khamenei and students at Tehran's Sharif Technical University.
In fact, Iran's clerical leadership appears to be touting the incident as a sign of its tolerance — so much so that some Iranians at first believed the 20-minute exchange was staged by the government, though opposition commentators are now convinced Vahidnia was the real thing.
Details of the encounter were reported on the state news agency IRNA and in a pro-government newspaper, Keyhan, which gave its account with a headline reading, "The revolutionary leader's fatherly response to critical youth." Even Khamenei's official Web site mentioned the incident

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091105/...nging_khamenei

gearjammer-2000 · **^ Top** #2 1 Week Ago

well it this is true there is a young man with a VERY large set of brass ones.

doubledragon5 · **^ Top** #3 1 Week Ago

When it all quiets down, he could vary well disappear..

kajidono · **^ Top** #4 1 Week Ago

Yup, and the media will never say a word about it.

ironeagle2006 · **^ Top** #5 1 Week Ago

Shows that Student has a BIGGER SET OF BALLS THAN THE PRESIDENT OF THE USA DOESN'T IT. Pretty sad when a 20 year old has more COJONES than a man with enough firepower in one Submarine to turn Iran into a Self LIGHTING GLASS FLOORED PARKING LOT. But then again we now that Obama was Neutered by Michelle and the DNC.

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