NCRI – On Saturday, 1,500 Tehran University students protesting over the bad food at the cafeteria clashed with the State Security Forces (SSF). Ambulances were rushed to the scene, according to eyewitnesses.
More than 20 people were injured in clashes between the students shouting anti-regime slogans and the SSF who were forcing students to return to university campus, one eyewitness said.
The protests over the bad food started on Friday but soon the event turned into an anti-government demonstration that spread to nearby streets.
It was the first time since the spring of 2003 that a student protest spilled over to nearby streets. The SSF and security guards had made it impossible for the students to demonstrate outside the university campus fearing a rerun of the events in the summer of 1999.