According to information received, the head of the so called “leadership organ” of Iranian universities Mohammad Mohammadian called for firm measures in dealing with students, saying, “The ethical record at the universities is tarnished. A university’s chancellor is responsible for all aspects of the institution. He is not just responsible for what the university teaches. On the contrary; he is responsible for the students’ ethics and way of thinking. We have to combat the few who tarnish the image of the universities. Our universities are human-production facilities and should combat these problems.”
Separately, the paramilitary Bassij Daneshjoui (Student Bassij Force) at Amir Kabir University threatened students with further expulsions. The website belonging to this suppressive organ wrote that “transgressors” should not show up for the entrance examinations for Masters Degrees. The website added, “Those who are pioneers in opposing the martyrs and the values created out of their blood and chant pro-Israeli slogans and advertise (so called) democracy are the spies of the United States and traitors against their own people. They defend the Monafeqin grouplet (Peoples’ Mojahedin of Iran) and commemorate and honor them inside universities,” thus, they should have no place in universities.
Last Saturday, agents of the Bassij Daneshjoui stabbed to death a student at Sabzevar University.
The Iranian Resistance calls on all international human rights organizations and student unions to condemn the suppressive measures by the mullahs’ medieval regime against Iranian students.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
November 22, 2006