Students in a number of universities across Iran staged protests and strikes following the rise in crackdown and intimidation in society.
In Rajai University in Tehran, students’ protest against suppressive policies and the appointment of extremists as the chancellor of the university entered its sixth day. The students also called for the dismissal of the chancellor and protested the burial of three members of Paramilitary Bassij force on campus.
On Friday, the University Chancellor, visited the strikers, and called the students “thieves, opportunists and foreign operatives” and accused them of receiving “foreign aid to create chaos."
The students stepped up their protests by closing down classrooms and calling for the resignation of the chancellor. Yesterday, the University’s staff issued a statement supporting and joining the student strike.
In another development, Tehran’s “Allamme-Tabatabei” University students prevented the new chancellor from making a speech.
On Saturday and Sunday, Kerman University’s Science and Technology students staged a strike against the regime’s intimidating actions.
Students at “Bahonar” School of Kerman University have been on strike since Saturday. University officials have reportedly closed the main gate to the Science and Technology School and cut off water to the building.
Meanwhile, 20 students from Sharif Technical University, who had protested against the burial of Bassij members on campus, have been summoned to court.
The mullahs’ regime continues the plan to bury war victims in the universities in order to step up an atmosphere of terror and intimidation.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
April 19, 2006
