NCRI – The Commander of the Iranian regime’s State Security Forces (SSF) in Qazvin, Massoud Jaafari-Nasab, confessed on Wednesday that at least 400 university students have been arrested by the regime in the city. He cited ridiculous and fabricated grounds for the arrests, including “attending various parties, birthday celebrations, and such activities” (Fars news agency, a mouthpiece of the regime’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, January 20, 2010).
Jaafari was appointed as Qazvin’s SSF Commander for his track record of services to the mullahs as well as his involvement in the suppression of dissidents in the course of the nationwide uprisings in Iran.
Meanwhile, mullah Morteza Hosseini, the representative of the regime’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, in the IRGC in Qazvin, described the country’s universities as the “source of corruption” and while voicing worries about a “cultural assault” in universities, he said, “Since the enemy has attacked using the internet and satellites, its assault must be neutralized in universities.”
Brave Iranian students, who are at the forefront of the Iranian people’s protest movement, have always born the brunt of the clerical regime’s severe suppressive measures. Using phrases like “sources of corruption” to refer to these students, who have suffered heavily during the nationwide uprising, is merely an indicator of the trepidation of the religious fascism ruling Iran when it comes to the determination of the youth. Iranian youth have shown during the uprisings in recent months that they seek the overthrow of the regime and the establishment of democracy and popular sovereignty in its place.
The Iranian Resistance calls on all human right organizations, particularly the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the UN working group on arbitrary detentions, to push for the unconditional release of all detained students and political prisoners in Iran.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
January 22, 2010
