Iranian students hurl firebombs at Saudi embassy

[The Vegan Marxist]

Major salutes to these Iranian students!

Iranian students hurl firebombs at Saudi embassy
Monday, Apr. 11, 2011

TEHRAN, Iran — Scores of Iranian students have attacked the Saudi Arabian embassy with firebombs to protest the Gulf country’s role in cracking down on anti-government protesters in Bahrain.

The official IRNA news agency says protesters tried to attach a flag of the Lebanese group Hezbollah to the embassy’s gate Monday, but were prevented by police. Protesters chanted slogans against Saudi and Bahraini leaders, both followers of Sunni Islam.

Iran, predominantly Shiite Muslim, has denounced the deployment of a Saudi-led force to help prop up Bahrain’s monarchy. A government crackdown against Bahrain’s Shiite-led protests has killed at least 27 people. Authorities say they see Iran’s influence among the opposition, though there are no visible links.

http://www.thestate.com/2011/04/11/1774524/iranian-students-hurl-firebombs.html

[erupt]

Hopefully the Arab conflict won't result in some sort of large-scale Sunni vs. Shiite civil war with no political borders.

[Devrim]

Major salutes to these Iranian students!

Why?

Devrim

[The Vegan Marxist]

Why?

Devrim

So you don't support the Iranian student's defiance against the Saudi's and their imperialist actions against Bahraini citizens?

[Serge's Fist]

They are not ordinary students. They are organised by the Basij, the state and religous zealots. These are the same reactionaries that attack real student organisations.

[The Vegan Marxist]

They are not ordinary students. They are organised by the Basij, the state and religous zealots. These are the same reactionaries that attack real student organisations.

The Iranian State are also against Saudi Arabia's imperialist attack against the Bahraini citizens. They're also known allies to the Palestinian movement. So completely irrelevant to the current topic.

[Devrim]

So you don't support the Iranian student's defiance against the Saudi's and their imperialist actions against Bahraini citizens?

Well I don't 'support' things in the way that you do anyway, but something like this in Tehran is certainly supported by factions within the state and has probably been organised them.

I tend not to see much to support when people are openly supporting their own state's foreign policy. You do realise that what you are commenting on here is the Iranian equivalent of a right-wing mob protesting outside the Iranian embassy in Washington DC.

Nor do I see anything positive about the general increase in sectarian tensions across the entire region, but then I live, unlike you in a country which has seen religious pogroms against minority Shia sects within the last two decades. I don't see anything positive for the working class in the region in the heightening of this sectarian conflict.

Of course, the Saudi intervention in Bahrain is reactionary and can not be supported by any communist, but I think the Bahraini opposition movement is also a reactionary sectarian movement, which was demonstrated by the number of attacks on foreign workers during the protest movement.

When Iranian workers and students are coming out on the streets in defence of their own class interests like in the strike movement of Spring 2007, I will applaud. When people are being mobilized in the national interests of their own state, please forgive me if I remain more than a little cynical.

Devrim