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To: combjelly who wrote (316170)	12/18/2006 9:31:04 AM
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Published: 18/12/2006 12:00 AM (UAE) Ahmadinejad stifles student dissent with star rating system By Kay Biouki and Colin Freeman, The Telegraph Group Limited, London 2006 gulfnews.com Tehran: Tehran University authorities have adopted a 'star rating' system for politically-active students as part of the president's crackdown on dissent within the academic elite. The diktat, under which regime critics are given between one and three stars according to the perceived threat they pose, was among the main catalysts for last week's unprecedented student demonstrations against Ahmadinejad in Tehran. At the protests - the first public display of defiance against the president's hard-line clerical rule since he took office last year - students burned his picture and branded him a 'fascist' who had no place in an institute of learning. Under the vetting system, first enforced in the present academic term, some students deemed ideologically suspect have been banned outright from studying. "Students who already had one star had to sign a letter saying they would not join in any political activities before they could enrol," said Ali Nikou Nesbati, 26, a member of Tahkin Vahdat, a student body involved in the protests. "Students who had two stars had their enrolment delayed for months and had to sign a much more binding letter. Those with three stars - about 17 students in all - have been prevented from enrolling at all."