As details of the death toll for January’s protests continue to emerge, three students explain why they are resisting a return to normality

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.”

  • IndustryStandard@lemmy.worldEnglish
    33·
    13 hours ago

    Two 17 year old terrorists magically become children.

    Those 300 cops must have killed themselves.

    Ehsan Hosseinipour Hesarloo, 18, Matin Mohammadi and Erfan Amiri, both 17, are undergoing a fast-tracked, torture-tainted grossly unfair trial before Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court of Tehran for alleged involvement in an 8 January 2026 fire at a Basij base inside a mosque in Pakdasht, Tehran province, that killed two Basij agent

    So they literally killed police and burned down mosques.

    Amnesty is an imperialist propaganda organisation which has repeated the debunked Hamas rape hoax. They will paste any Zionist propaganda they are asked on their frontpage.

    • mirshafie@europe.pubEnglish
      11·
      13 hours ago

      I mean, they did commit arson with a deadly outcome, but Basij are not cops. They’re a junta.

      That being said, I strongly oppose the death penalty, I oppose war (fuck the US and fuck Israel), and also fuck the “protestors” that destroyed people’s cars, shops, mosques and homes. I’m an anarchist and a revolutionary, they’re mindless thugs. We are not the same.

      • IndustryStandard@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        13 hours ago

        I guess security forces are technically a better description but in practice they would be comparable to volunteer cops.