Dubai Police stop Iranian petition: Via The National Newspaper(Dubai).

DUBAI // Iranian protesters who gathered in Dubai last night were prevented by police from signing a petition against their president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Officers told the 100-strong crowd they were forbidden from sending official petitions from UAE soil.

The Iranians had gathered on the beach at Jumeirah Beach Residence to sign a green banner in protest at recent events in Iran.

They had planned to send it to Paris, where it would join others from around the world in being hung from the top of the Eiffel Tower, along with the slogan “Ahmadinejad is not our president”.

But protesters said police stopped them from putting their signatures on the cloth, telling them that while they had the right to have a gathering, they were not allowed to sign anything, as the UAE and Iran maintained diplomatic relations.
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