First Person to Die from the Iranian Freedom Protests

It seems that the "Green Revolution" in Iran may have just got its first martyr.

An Associated Press photographer saw one person fatally shot and at least two others who appeared to be seriously wounded.

The United States was "deeply troubled" by reports of violence and arrests in Iran, State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said, but he added that the U.S. knows too little about the conduct of the election to say for sure whether there was fraud.

The worst part about this vote rigging is that Ahmadinejoke won by some asinine landslide. If you want to rig the vote and make it look decent you would just allow Ahmadinejoke to win by a comfortable margin or even just squeak by. That way he can say that the people have spoken and he can pay lip-service to reforms and take the same hard-line stance.

Now these events at Tehran University has to be some weird Deja Vu for the people involved in the original Islamic takeover of Iran exactly 30 years ago. This is one of the places where the Shah shot some demonstrators and helped trigger some of the revolution.

Overnight, police and hard-line militia stormed Tehran University, ransacking dormitories and arresting dozens of students. The university was the site of serious clashes against student-led protests in 1999 and is one of the nerve centers of the pro-reform movement.

The gathering at the university started with students chanting "Death to the dictator." But it quickly erupted into clashes as students threw rocks and Molotov cocktails at police, who fired tear gas and plastic bullets, a 25-year-old student who witnessed the fighting told the AP. He would only give one name, Akbar, out of fear for his safety.