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.”
Okay, but that’s a different argument to make on a different post about a different argument, not this one because it’s irrelevant here. Literally no one here is arguing in favor of US/Israeli military action.
Why don’t you go argue with people on a post about the invasion? Spoiler: you won’t see me there supporting it because that’s not what I’m doing.
Then stop spreading the same news as the US/Israeli propaganda apparatus
That’s not what I was doing. This post is an article from The Guardian, an independent journal, about Iranian student protesters.
But now that we’re clearly arguing in circles, I’m blocking you. Enjoy those rials while they last.
Death to Khamenei. The New Iran will rise from the ashes of the regime.
The Guardian is a Zionist mouthpiece, if you refuse to see that after 3 years of genocide the fault is on you.