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October 20, 2009

Former minister gets the shoe

(Via Mowj Camp)
(Via Mowj Camp)

A protesting student at Tehran University threw his shoe at the Saffar Harandi, the former Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance of Iran under Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, reports Mowj Camp.
Mowj Camp also reports that students delayed Harandi’s speech by chanting slogans such as “Ya Hossein, Mir Hossein” and booing him.  Eventually, Harandi had to leave the university to avoid further confrontation.

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