NCRI – Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, lauded students for their uprising especially in Polytechnic University and Tehran University yesterday and said that the students displayed the will and the desire of the Iranian people for removal of the religious dictatorship and establishment of democracy and popular rule by crying out “death to dictator,” “get up and bring down the despots’ rule,” “we do not want fascist rule,” “stop deceit and deployment of guns, tanks and bassij paramilitary force” and “free all political prisoners.”
She added that brutal attacks by suppressive forces on Polytechnic University students, wounding many and widespread arrests including dozens of female students, unveils the clerical regime’s fear of the spreading student movement which is increasingly pressing for the downfall of the inhuman regime.
Despite tight security, Tehran’s Polytechnic University students on Monday expressed their anger and abhorrence at burial of remains of victims of eight-year Iran-Iraq war on campus. The Revolutionary Guards, the State Security Forces (SSF) – mullahs' suppressive police force – and agents of the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) attacked the students using knives, batons, brass knuckles and tear gas. The police crackdown left some 60 students wounded, three seriously, and 120 other arrests.
Tehran University students also demonstrated outside the Law School protesting to suppression imposed on the students and their subsequent arrests.
Mrs. Rajavi called on students and the youth across the country to rise in support of the protesting students in Tehran. She also called on all international human rights organizations and student unions to support Iranian students and condemn their brutal suppression.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
February 24, 2009
