Three Stars Do Not A General Make and Other Contradictions

He is what is known perversely in Iran as a three star student. That means he has three bad marks against his name for political activism - enough to be banned from the university.

The contradictions only applying in the context of what "He Said, She Said." as reported by the BBC or more accurately "He Said, He Said"

This paragraph is an update if you will. I had published the whole article and nowhere to be found was mention of the point of interest that inspired its writing.
As you read the report from the BBC you might see much similarity between the actions of the Iranian Government and the modus operandi of Bu$hco, as is reflected in the latest stunt involving US attorneys and then there is this.

And there is mobile phone footage from a demonstration in the summer at which the posters make it pretty clear what the students think of their new Ayatollah-turned-chancellor.

"This is not a religious seminary - it's a university," read one poster.

Now wouldn't that be the ultimate wet dream of the Fundi-Right, every school and uni headed by some batshit crazy preacher man. Christ it would have made Kansas look like Cambridge inside of a year, and science!, oh my, Adam and Eve off to church (Southern Baptist of course) on Sundays riding on the backs of his and her dinosaurs. Proceed if you will.


For what "She Said" is of little importance in Iran, unless of course it is, and then it suddenly becomes "Propaganda and threatens national security. Wow, your bad ladies, oh and lets not forget your Riotous Assembly.

The five have been charged with endangering national security, propaganda against the state and taking part in an illegal gathering. (June 2006)

As we know from the old adage Two's Company, Three can be a ball,
or in the case of Governments the world over, Riotous or Illegal Assembly.
And who knows what kind of threat thirty two might pose for the Government of Iran,(watch) and them not even in full Ninja kit.

The protesters were showing solidarity with five women on trial for organising a protest last June against laws they say discriminate against women.

The consensus being that the thirty two women represent the majority of the leaders of the women's rights group in Iran, and the arrests are a pre-emptive move to down play "International Women's Day" on the Eighth of March. (Report from IWD 2004)