NCRI – On Wednesday, a group of plainclothes agents raided the offices of board of governors at the Free University of Tehran and confiscated documents, according to state-run news agencies in Iran.
The state-run Mehr news agency reported on May 27, citing an email from the Chairman of the Board of Governors of Free Islamic University in Tehran, that at midnight on Wednesday, individuals with plain clothes entered the building where the office of the board of governors is located.
According to the email, the individuals were armed. They threatened and handcuffed university security guards and conducted a four-hour-long search in the location, confiscating documents and computers.
The assailants reportedly possessed a prosecutor order for their actions, but according the email, judiciary officials were not aware of such an order and had not officially notified school officials.
The email also described the action as the continuation of “certain ongoing activities in recent days,” adding, “Following the illegal declaration of changes in the university’s charter and introduction of new board members, a number of plainclothes agents illegally gathered in front of various offices at the Free University.”
A day earlier, the so-called High Council of Cultural Revolution introduced new board members at the university on the basis of a new charter, and issued a month-long ultimatum to elect a new president.
The existing board members had previously declared that the proposed new charter engendered “legal and Sharia foibles.”
The High Council of Cultural Revolution is chaired by the clerical regime’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Its decision to appoint new board members at the Free University in Tehran signals the opening of a new chapter in the longstanding confrontation between Ahmadinejad and the Free University.
The university is considered to be private and currently has 357 campuses across Iran with a total of 1.4 million students.
