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Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/world/middleeast/20iran.html
Radical Left Challenging Authority in Iran
[New York Times] Nazila Fathi - In early December at Tehran University, 500 Marxist students held aloft portraits of Che Guevara to protest President Ahmadinejad's policies. Political protest has been harshly suppressed under the current Iranian government, but the radical left has been permitted relative freedom. Analysts say this may be because, like the government, it rejects the liberal reform movement and attacks the West.