As details of the death toll for January’s protests continue to emerge, three students explain why they are resisting a return to normality
More than 45 days after a brutal January crackdown that left thousands of Iranian protesters dead, students across several universities are protesting again. As Iran’s new academic term began on Saturday, students in Tehran gathered on campus, chanting anti-government slogans, despite a heavy security presence and plainclothes officers stationed outside university gates.
The Guardian spoke to protesting students about why they were rallying despite the fact that thousands had been killed and tens of thousands arrested in the January demonstrations.
“Our classrooms are empty because the graveyards are full,” said Hossein*, 21, a student at the University of Tehran. “It’s for them – our friends, classmates and compatriots, who were gunned down in front of our eyes, that we decided to boycott the classes.”
Yes. That was literally my point mate. That news outlets lie and print shit that isn’t confirmed. Thanks for understanding my initial comment this deep into the thread.
I wasn’t “duped”. I was literally pointing out the bull shit coverage in my first comment.
I never once said I thought that number was real or that I believed the outlets that spread it.
Your point was that you backed someone saying we shouldn’t trust the reporting for The Guardian on on this issue by saying “It’s insane. I saw a report saying 80k. How can anyone print that number”
When in reality what you saw was… a twitter post.
Do you think it’s fair to sow distrust for the credibility of the article in the OP because you read something on twitter by someone else?
I’m sure you’ll continue to try to twist this away from that initial post towards how what you really meant is that you didn’t believe “all the [other] outlets that spread it!” (which you conveniently don’t have time for to dig up lol). The best thing I can hope for is that you look away from your screen for a minute and ask yourself the question why you felt compelled to ‘massage the message’
You win! You made it to the bottom of the useless comment thread of one person making an assumption that was never said. It’s fucking exhausting. You deserve a break. Get some water and go stretch.