NCRI - On Saturday, the mullahs’ regime arrested four students from Shiraz University. They were identified as Abdol-jalil Rezaii, Kazem Rezaii, Mohsen Zarrin Kamar, and Loghman Ghadiri Goltappeh. Officials from the mullahs’ Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) avoid responding to inquiries from families of these students, and at the time of issuing this statement, the fate of the detainees remains unclear. 

Meanwhile, four students from the Babol Noshirvani University of Technology have been summoned to the university’s disciplinary committee. They were identified as Ali Taghipour, Moin Eslamjam, Mohsen Barzegar, and Hamid Jahan. It should be reminded that MOIS agents at the university, who operate under the guise of “Student Security and Cultural Office,” contacted the students’ families a day before the “Student Day” gathering and had issued threats demanding the families to prevent their children from participating in political activities or deal with their expulsion from university.

The increase in suppression of students occurs after the widespread anti-regime protests in various Iranian universities last December, marking the occasion of “Student Day” on December 6, 2008. In the course of these protests, students transformed universities into scenes of protest against the suppressive policies of the ruling religious fascism in Iran. Some of the protesting universities included, Tehran University and the University of Science and Technology in Tehran, as well as universities in Shiraz, Sistan va Baluchestan, Hamedan, Isfahan, Tabriz, Babol, Babolsar, Orumieh, Qazvin, Arak, Birjand, Sanandaj, Ilam, and Bandar Abbas. The brave protesting students gave sensational speeches and chanted slogans such as, “Seyyed Ali [Khamenei] Pinochet, Iran can’t become Chile,” “Death to dictator,” and “We are fighters, men and women,   Fight us and we will fight.” With these slogans, students aimed their rage and anger at the entire mullahs’ regime.

The Iranian Resistance warns about the widespread arrests and threats of torture and execution of university activists in universities across the country, and calls on all human rights organizations and international bodies, as well as student unions to support student protests in Iran and adopt effective measures aimed at ending the widespread suppression of Iranian students.

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
January 4, 2009