Regarding the students’ demonstration against Ahmadinejad with the slogan of “death to dictator”, the White House spokesman Dana Perino said:” The people in Iran deserve better than the regime that they have. And we stand with those who are standing for freedom and their right to free speech and assembly.”.
She was speaking after Iranian students at the country’s top university in Tehran staged a noisy protest against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday shortly before he gave a speech there.