IRAN: Sex scandal erupts at university

Thousands of students at a university in western Iran staged a protest this weekend demanding punishment for a ranking school official accused of sexually harassing a student, according to an Iranian newspaper cited by Western news agencies.

The Zanjan University students are shown in this video apparently catching the university's vice chancellor in the act of sexually harassing a student.

Scroll to the end of the tape to see scenes of campus unrest. Officials say the situation has since come under control.

The alleged sexual contact was all the more galling to students because of the draconian restrictions placed on student behavior by Iranian university authorities.

Students told Iran's Etemad newspaper that this particular official, unnamed, had tried to shut down a student association on campus because its "members have moral problems and do not have an Islamic behavior."

Iran forbids sexual relations between unmarried men and women.

— Borzou Daragahi in Beirut

Comments

[Gilda]

Now those six students who have recorded this video are being punished and sentenced. Please spread this news to pressure Iran's judiciary system to release them as they have done nothing wrong. This is so unjust.

[Mike]

Seems like a conspiracy againts the poor guy. The girl may have seduced him. These things happen all the time. President Clinton had a much more severe case and got away with it ...

[Jason Shams]

Americans send their children to university to be f'd? you have a serious problem kiumars, and by the way where are you living at the moment?

[dario]

these things are not rare in US or UK. There was a protest against the trip of president Bush to UK, even with more participant, but no sign of it in LATimes !
You may call these kind of things a democratice value, if they happen in US, but when in other countries, they are unrest and so on . . .
unfairness and duble standard even in journalism?

[Kiumars]

Was he having sex with the woman we saw in the beginning of the video? This guy’s ass is brass, that I can promise you! I wonder if USA will be kind enough to give asylum to this adulterous, one more doesn’t make much different in the USA, you can give him a room next to the previous mayor of the NYC! BTW, Well-done to the students, let these perverts know that Iran is not the USA and we don’t send our children to university to be F..CKED!