Iran: State Security Forces (SSF) step up suppression in student dormitories

On the eve of the anniversary of the July 9, 1999 student uprising, out of fear of a repeat of the same events, the mullahs’ regime has put into effect new measures for suppressing students.

Brig. General Morteza Talai, Commander of the SSF in Greater Tehran, announced a new plan for “crime and damage prevention” in which “a permanent representative of the SSF would be installed in the students’ cultural administration to prevent a repeat of last months’ events at Tehran University’s dormitories” (state-run daily, Jomhouri Islami).

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On the eve of the anniversary of the July 9, 1999 student uprising, out of fear of a repeat of the same events, the mullahs’ regime has put into effect new measures for suppressing students.

Brig. General Morteza Talai, Commander of the SSF in Greater Tehran, announced a new plan for “crime and damage prevention” in which “a permanent representative of the SSF would be installed in the students’ cultural administration to prevent a repeat of last months’ events at Tehran University’s dormitories” (state-run daily, Jomhouri Islami).

Talai tried to play down the significance of the students’ uprising in May and said, “One night in early May, over ten thousand students were present in their rooms at the dormitories and were confident that they were under police protection, while only 30 to 40 people were involved in what happened.”

The new measures come at a time when, according to Talai and other suppressive SSF commanders, clashes with the students at the dormitory left at least 40 agents of the SSF “injured or hospitalized.”

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
June 24, 2006