TEHRAN A number of students who had staged a protest gathering at the Tehran University dormitory ended their gathering on Sunday morning.

The gathering was held in protest against the low quality of food served in the dormitory's cafeteria. Some students on Saturday night got sick due to the poor quality of food and had to be taken to hospital. Following the incident, the students took to the street outside their dormitory and chanted some slogans against the official in charge of the dormitory. At midnight, they returned to the dormitory at the request of some police officers and staged their protest gathering on the dormitory premises.