When Students Rise, Tyrants Tremble

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By Struan Stevenson Throughout modern history, student uprisings have served as one of the clearest indicators that a regime has entered its final and most dangerous phase. Young people possess a unique capacity to sense political decay long before many others. They see through propaganda, reject hollow promises, and refuse to accept a future stolen by corruption, repression, and incompetence. When students pour onto the streets in large numbers, authoritarian rulers have every reason to fear the consequences. The latest wave of protests sweeping Tehran, Mashhad, and Hamedan should therefore ring alarm bells throughout Iran’s ruling establishment. Thousands of students have risen in defiance of discriminatory educational policies, arbitrary changes to university entrance regulations, and mounting pressures imposed by a regime increasingly detached from the realities facing ordinary citizens. Their demands concern far more than examinations and academic records. These demonstrations r...

Demonstrators in Karamshah: Political Prisoners Must Be Freed. Rise up, Rise up You, Young Iranians !

Uprising, No to High Prices - No. 8
During the uprising of the heroic people in the city of Kermanshah, the capital of the Western Kermanshah province on the morning of Friday December 29, people tore down the regime's signs and banners, especially the Basij and IRGC banners. The anti-riot forces attacked the demonstrators with batton and severely beat and injured a number of people. The suppressive forces also began to disperse the people with the opening of high pressure water. The women with the slogan of "Shame, Shame, Police shame", "Do not be afraid, we are all together," challenged the mercenaries.
The anti-riot killers were saying with loudspeakers : "Your gathering is illegal, leave the region sooner." But people heckled them and chants of "Political prisoners must be freed", "Death to the dictator," and "do not be afraid,", "Iranian youth; rise up, rise up ! ", " Neither Gaza, nor Lebanon, my life is a sacrifice for Iran" resonated in the sky of Karamshah.
The people and the brave youths of Qouchan, while chanting slogans "Death to Rouhani, Death to High Prices, Death to the Dictator," "Do not be afraid, do not be afraid, we are all together," joined the "No to High Prices" uprising. The rally was attacked by the suppressive forces.
The mercenaries of anti-riot unit were trying to disperse people with both intimidation and bribery, but the youths answered back by chanting slogans "Death to Rouhaniand" and "liar liar ".
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
December 29, 2017

    
    

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