The Guardian reported:

Iranian student activists who staged an angry protest against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad last week have gone into hiding in fear for their lives after his supporters threatened them with revenge.

One student fled after being photographed holding a banner reading, ‘Fascist president, the polytechnic is not for you’, during Mr Ahmadinejad’s visit to Tehran’s Amir Kabir university. At least three others have gone underground after being seen burning his picture. Vigilantes from the militant Ansar-e Hezbollah group have been searching for them…

Shouldn’t the free world be shouting from the rooftops in support of these brave and now hunted students? Shouldn’t it be doing for them what was done for the Russian dissidents, with their names made known and kept in the public eye and demonstrations held in their support, so that their persecutors do not dispose of them while everyone is looking the other way? Why don’t we start properly supporting the many brave Iranian dissidents who are fighting our fight?