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Several students have been arrested or kidnapped including Mr. Manouchehr Mohammadi, the leader of the Students Movement for Democracy in Iran, and the authorities have refused to tell their families of their whereabouts.
The gathering, which took place inside the university campus, was in "defence of political prisoners and freedom."
The students called for the release of Abbas Amir-Entezam, a former spokesman of the provisional government of Mehdi Bazargan who has been detained since the 1980.
Witnesses say this has been the most vicious attack of all the recent mob attacks on our students. The best sons and daughters of Mother Iran are facing daily physical attacks by the paid club wielding brainless animals of velayat-e-faqih, will you lift a finger to help them ??.
Several thugs lunged at the podium in Tehran's Laleh Park, where a leader of the Office to Consolidate Unity, the biggest pro-Khatami student movement, was addressing a crowd of around 5,000 people, the witnesses said.
The incident sparked scuffles between the two sides. According to Hamshahri newspaper, some of the students were thrown into the swimming pool near where the meeting was taking place. Organised mobs were being ordered by their ringleaders with mobile phones. The speakers and the students begged the security forces present there to intervene but as usual the security forces were like mouse when it came to dealing with Hezbollah thugs.
Iranian MP threatens another with a Gun! - An Iranian MP has been sentenced to six months in jail for using a gun to threaten a member of the supervisory boards which oversaw February's local elections, newspapers reported Monday.
Mojtaba Musavi Ojaq, a pro-Khatami MP from Kermanshah in western Iran, was found guilty of threatening the unnamed board member during a public meeting in April.
The court also sentenced him to an 80 dollar fine, the papers said.
Ojaq has 20 days to lodge an appeal -- like all Iranian MPs, he enjoys no parliamentary immunity.
Iranian Officer Dies in Helicopter Crash - An Iranian army intelligence colonel and another officer died when their helicopter crashed in southern Iran, a newspaper reported on Sunday.
Habibollah Namazian, head of intelligence at a training camp for airborne units in Isfahan in central Iran, died on Saturday when his helicopter crashed near the southern city of Shiraz, the newspaper Kayhan said.
Another officer died in the crash, the paper said. The cause of the incident was being investigated, it added.
The assailants interrupted a speech by liberal opposition figure Ezatollah Sahabi, and wounded several participants in the ceremony at Ahmad Abad village where Mossadegh was born.
The assailants then damaged the participants' vehicles in the village, which is 100 kilometers (62 miles) west of Tehran.
More than 100 students have been injured and several of them have been hospitalized in critical conditions...
More than 80 students have been arrested by the Islamic forces and the authorities are refusing to let their parents know about their detention locations...
One of the injured student leaders named Manouchehr Mohammadi had to escape from the hospital as the security forces were trying to arrest him in his critical condition.
One of the speakers of the democracy movement in a phone interview from Teheran and with the KRSI (Radio Iran of Los Angeles) declared: " The struggle for democracy will continue and will not stop until the restoration of freedom in Iran..."
He added : " Today's demo was the biggest student demo in recent years and our youth is proving this old saying that " Iran Will Never Die..."
Hossein Javaheri was abducted on Saturday around 6:00 a.m. (0130 GMT) by two men who drove him off in a car to an unknown destination, Ibrahim Yazdi, secretary-general of the Freedom Movement of Iran (FMI) told AFP.
"The police, as well as the interior ministry were immediately informed of this kidnapping," Yazdi added.
Javaheri called his family and simply told them that he would be unable to come home for another "four to five days," Yazdi said.
Ibrahim Yazdi was instrumental in administering Khomeini's public relations excercise in exile and an influential person in bringing him to power. Despite the media referring to FMI as a liberal organisation, Ibrahim Yazdi is known to have extreme reactionary and outdated views by people who know him well.
Foreign ministry spokesman Sermet Atacanli deplored the demonstration which he said could be interpreted as interference in Turkish domestic affairs and was "not welcome."
Hundreds of Iranian so-called students organised by the Iranian regime chanted anti-Turkish slogans at Tehran University on Saturday in solidarity with Merve Kavakci, a deputy of the Islamic Virtue Party (FP), who was unable to take her parliamentary oath because of protests over her attire and her US citizenship.
National Movement of Iranian Resistance condemns this blatant act of interference in Turkey's affairs. The analogy would be if the Turkish government stages a demonstration in support of millions of Iranian women who are forced to wear Islamic attire against their will
Clashes broke out when about a thousand workers marched along one of the city's main thoroughfares toward parliament chanting anti-government slogans. It was not immediately clear how many were arrested.
``Treacherous legislators must be expelled from parliament,'' the protesters chanted.
Authorities had earlier said they would refuse to allow workers to use the May 1 Labour Day festivities to press for better living standards.
A conservative-led parliamentary commission overseeing labour activities had denied the protesters a permit, a move criticised by the state-affiliated House of Labour.
The Regime Kills the Father of Lajavardi's Assassin - Agents of the medieval regime of mullahs have killed Sohrab Akbari. 61, while he was working on his farm. Sohrab Akbari was simply the father of Ali Akbar Akbari who assassinated Assadollah Lajavardi, the 'Butcher' of Evin prison.
Ali Akbar Akbari, 20, died under torture three days after his arrest on August 23, 1998
Trial of Security Police Chief Starts - The closed-door trial of the Iranian chief of security police charged with torturing officials from the Tehran municipality opened at a military court here Monday.
The official IRNA news agency said Brigadier General Mohammad-Reza Naqdi has denied all charges, including ordering the torture of prisoners to force confessions, illegal detention, slander and the manipulation of evidence.
The court issued a stern warning to the press against reporting on the details of the trial, which is being held in camera because of "the probability of disclosure of security issues," IRNA said.
It said the plaintiffs outlined their charges before the court and said the next session would take place Monday.