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On Feb 7th about 1000 students of Sharif University of Technology (Tehran) held a gathering and chanted “God is Great” on campus in protest to continuation of detention of their classmates.

The Islamic Iran Participation Front (reformist) by issuing a statement on the anniversary of the Islamic Revolution invited everyone to accompany the leaders of the Green Movement, Mousavi, Karoubi and Khatami by participating in the Feb 11th (22 Bahman) rally. In this statement it was stressed to supporters of the Green Movement to actively and calmly while carrying Green symbols participate in this demonstration and by chanting slogans such as “God is great” and “Independence, Freedom and the Islamic Republic” and with patience by avoiding violence don’t give any excuse to the authoritarians for more repression and make this day a day of people’s will to reinstated their right to chose their density and the complete implementation of the constitution and open the way for reform in the country. In this statement the Participation Front praised all those who because of their true beliefs are imprisoned, threatened or lost their lives and stressed that active participation in Feb 11th rally is the continuation of their path.

The minority fraction of the parliament, reformist, by issuing a statement while inviting everyone to participate in Feb 11th (22 Bahman) rally on the anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, asked the authorities to precisely follow the constitution and other extracted laws and to make special efforts in reinstating people’s rights and by ensuring people’s right to chose and by holding the institution of power accountable in front of the nation, strengthen the national unity and sense of hope in the society.

Ahmad Montazeri, son of late Grand Ayatollah Montazeri, in an open letter to Ezatollah Zarghami, the pro-Ahmadinejad head of the state-run TV and Radio channels who is appointed by the supreme leader, protested to the TV programs that showed biased and deceitful reports against the noble character of the late Grand Ayatollah Montazeri. In this letter reads: “It has been more than 20 years that one-sided and biased programs are being broadcasted on national TV and unjust accusations and lies are being said [against late Ayatollah Montazeri] but never his of his office’s responses [to these lies] were broadcasted and now even after the 40th day anniversary of the passing of the late Ayatollah you see still the urge to attack him unfairly! Isn’t this by itself a proof of oppression against late Ayatollah?”

Mostafa Tajzadeh, former deputy minister of the ministry of interior and senior member of Mojahedin of the Revolution spoke one month before the election, expressing his concerns about the massive transpositions in the interior ministry of AhmadiNejad. He also said that the only missing freedom in Iran during the time of Shah was political freedom, as well as the freedom of the press and opinion, and the main goal of the revolution was to gain this kind of freedom