Iranian student protests on the occasion of ‘Student Day’ despite regime’s oppressive measures

Student protests on the occasion of ‘Student Day’

Call on international human rights authorities to take immediate action to release arrested students

Despite extensive repressive measures and arresting a large number of students, students’ protest rallies and demonstrations on the occasion of the Student Day (December 7th), which started on Monday, continue at various universities in the country.

On Saturday, December 8^th, a group of students at the University of Tehran gathered in front of the university entrance and chanted anti-government slogans. This was despite the fact that repressive forces had blocked the streets around Tehran University. Students from the Tehran Technical College also demonstrated while chanting: “Student would rather die than accept humiliation”, and the students of the Faculty of Art also chanted: “One, Two, Three, Freedom”.

On the same day students held similar protest gatherings and demonstrations at Sharif University of Technology and Tarbiat Moallem University in Tehran, University of Nooshirvan in Babol, Tabriz University, Garmsar University, Ahvaz University, Semnan University, Sahand University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz University of Technology, Marand University and Urmia University.

In their demonstrations, students chanted slogan: “Imprisoned students must be freed”. They also supported workers’ protests by chanting: “Imprisoned workers must be freed”.

On Sunday, December 9^th, students from some universities, including Tehran University and Allameh University, gathered and marched. Students at the University of Tehran chanted: “Student, Worker, United, United!”

In fear of the spread of the demonstrations and protests, suppressive forces have arrested a large number of university students from Tehran University and other universities in recent days, some of whom have been summoned and threatened by the Intelligence Ministry.

Iranian Resistance calls on all students unions and syndicates in different countries to support Iranian students, and calls on international human rights advocates to take immediate action to free arrested students.

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran

TRUCK DRIVERS STRIKE IN IRAN CONTINUES DESPITE REGIME THREATS

By INU Staff

INU- Truck drivers in Iran continued their new round of nationwide strikes into its third consecutive day on Friday. The strike spread to 35 cities in 18 provinces, incuding Najafabad, Mobarakeh, Isfahan, Sabzevar, Mashhad, Yazd, Zarrin Shahr, Ardabil, Rumeshgan, Kermanshah, Shahr-e Kord, Sirjan, and Sabzevar despite threats from the Iranian Regime and attempts to summon or arrest drivers.

Mohammad Reza Edalatkhah, head of the judiciary in Kermanshah Province, said that “severe measures” will be taken if the protests continue.
The drivers are demanding more pay, better working conditions, and the release of their imprisoned colleagues.

Iranian Resistance President Maryam Rajavi hailed the truck drivers’ strike in a tweet and encouraged others to support the drivers, including young people, international human rights organizations and drivers/workers unions. In response, a Danish drivers’ syndicate expressed their solidarity with the Iranian trucker drivers’ strike.

The reports out of Iran show that people from all walks of life are taking part in anti-regime protest rallies on Friday and earlier last week.

Friday
• Medical sciences students at Tehran’s Open University held a rally outside of their school’s main building and outside the regime’s Parliament building to express their outrage at current conditions.
• Young people in Behbahan held a rally at the city’s prayer sermon to protest not being hired at the local refinery, with jobs going to non-locals who would work for less.

Thursday
Farmers in Varzaneh, Shatur, and Ziar, gathered to protest the lack of access to water resources due to the failure of the Regime to manage water resources.
One of the reasons is that the Revolutionary Guards uses Iran’s water resources to benefit themselves and cater to their own companies through the building of dams.

This epic mismanagement is not only damaging the farmers’ livelihood, but also causing great environmental crises in different parts of Iran, with dried up lakes and dust storms.
This isn’t the first time that farmers have come together to protest the Regime.

They staged similar protests at the beginning of the year that lasted for more than two months. While they began over economic woes, these protests, like many this year, quickly became about the problems with the regime as a whole and called for regime change.

The Iranian opposition wrote: “The Iranian regime tries to lay the blame on foreign countries, but for the farmers of Isfahan, who have been living under the tyranny of the mullahs for the past four decades, there’s no question as to who is to blame for their daily miseries.”