On Wednesday, October 28, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei held a press conference with some of the country’s elite students on national television. He held a question-and-answer session with an assembled group of pre-approved honors students. He asked the students if they had any questions they wanted to ask them. One student raised his hand. Mahmoud Vahidnia (pictured) is a first-year mathematics major at prestigous Sharif University and the former winner of the International Math Olympics. Vahidnia’s question put him at significant personal risk. He replied, “Yes, I have some words with you.” For the next 20 minutes, Vahidnia criticized propaganda in newspapers regarding the election, political repression, official censorship and the inability of the people to criticize the government.
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Negev Rock City is the personal blog of Neal Ungerleider, a Tel Aviv/New York-based writer, editor and journalist. Neal currently writes about the Middle East for True/Slant and contributes regularly to a number of print and web publications. All opinions expressed herein are that of the author alone and do not represent any institutions or organizations that he may be affiliated with.About the editor
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