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

Khamenei’s late confession to injustice, to regime’s lack of capacity for reform, and desperate attempt to escape his doomed overthrow

National Council of Resistance of Iran

On Sunday 18 February, in fear of the nationwide uprising and anger and hatred of the frustrated people, Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of the falling regime of mullahs, made a late confession to injustice in the mullahs’ regime, and said: 'We are completely aware of the people’s criticisms, and their complaints; We have been told; others have been told too and these words are conveyed to us…. When we say they could criticize, it doesn’t mean that they only criticize the government or the judiciary or the parliament; no, somebody may also criticize this humble person (me) too.” He added, “We are retarded in justice, there is no doubt about it; we acknowledge, and we admit… Regarding the justice, we should try hard, we should work, and we should apologize to the Almighty God and the dear people. We have problems in justice.”
Khamenei’s apology merely reminds the Shah’s message in November 1978, two months before he fled Iran, when he said: 'I heard the message of your revolution.' Khamenei's words are also delirium of the regime’s collapse. He is making this apology at a time when his crimes have not diminished whatsoever, and every day there is news about the killing under torture by the mullahs’ regime’s henchmen of those who were arrested in the uprising. Khamenei is the greatest thief in Iran's history and the great killer of Iranian people. He and other leaders of the regime have done nothing over the past four decades but robbery, mass executions, massacres and torture.
At the same time, Khamenei once again admitted that any reform and modification within this regime or its constitution is absolutely a mirage and would lead to the overthrow of the regime. 'The administration of the country is respected, the constitution is respected, the constitution must be respected; this structure must be respected; (so must be) all the principles of the constitution ... the revolution, that is, the revolutionary system, this Islamic system,' he said. 
In the course of the January heroic uprising, the Iranian people gave their response to this late remorse with the slogans of “death to the principle of Velayat-e-Faqih” and “Down with the mullahs’ rule”. With this foolish tactic, he will not be able to rescue his broken and totally corrupt system from overthrow. Iran's youth are determined to cleanse the occupied Iran from the existence of the regime of killers and looters forever.