Iranian students chant anti-government slogansAFP, PARISIranian students on Saturday chanted anti-government slogans and scuffled with counter-protesters in the latest display of anger at the country’s clerical leaders, who also face a US military build-up aimed at pressuring them into a nuclear deal. The crackdown had prompted US President Donald Trump to threaten to intervene militarily, although the focus of his threats eventually shifted to Iran’s nuclear program, which Western governments fear is aimed at producing a bomb. Footage posted by the Persian-language TV channel Iran International, which is based outside the country, also showed a large crowd chanting anti-government slogans at Sharif University of Technology. The clerical authorities acknowledge more than 3,000 deaths, but say the violence was caused by “terrorist acts” fueled by Iran’s enemies. Iran denies it is trying to produce nuclear weapons, but insists on its right to enrich uranium for civilian purposes.
