Sunday, January 20, 2008

"In recent weeks, the leaders of the Marxist student movement have been arrested, suggesting that the government is worrying about the size of the demonstrations and the growing attraction of an ideology that is deeply antithetical to its own. Morad Saghafi, a political analyst and the editor in chief of Goftegoo magazine, said that it was not so strange that there were leftists but that it was significant that they were radical leftists. “They are showing a kind of radicalism to reform, religion and the current situation,” he said. Even some of those who object to President Ahmadinejad say permitting the growth of Marxist student movements is dangerous."