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.”
I don’t think western conservatives care about Iranian civilian casualties. If you’re suggesting I’m a conservative, you couldn’t be more wrong.
Also, this is The Guardian. They’re not owned by billionaires. Oh, and they’re not the only source or evidence for the atrocities committed by the Iranian government against its own civilians, either. You’re the one rejecting evidence.
You’re clearly just a shill running cover for the mullah, so why don’t you go eat shit?
1- then why the fuck are you here.
2- the guardian is a bourgeois publication.
Because I’m not a conservative, dumbass. I do care about civilian casualties.
The guardian crowdsources their funding from mostly small donations to maintain their independence from corporate interests.
1- then why do you have conservative pro-establishment pro-empire views?
2- the outlet spewing western propaganda nonstop is just a people-owned enterprise. yeah, right!
I don’t.
You’re calling it western propaganda because you either refuse to believe it or you’re actively peddling pro-mullah propaganda. Either way, I’m not wasting any more time on you.
you do, very much so.
i’m calling it western propaganda because it’s obviously manufacturing consent for an obvious attack by the us. spelling it out for you cause damn.