NEW YORK, Sept. 22 (UPI) -- Students vowed to be out in force Monday when the controversial president of Iran speaks at New York’s Columbia University.
The college has banned non-students from campus that day, but that won’t stop Columbia students from demonstrating during the appearance by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a report said.
The protest is planned for the steps of the Low Memorial Library on campus. The New York Daily News said Saturday that the area had recently been adorned with posters depicting executions of homosexuals in Iran.
The newspaper said students this week were generally opposed to Iranian policy, but defended Ahmadinejad’s right to speak on campus.
U.S.-Iranian relations have soured further in recent months over Tehran’s nuclear program and its assistance to insurgents in Iraq.
