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...

Lethal floods in Iran, and the crimes of the clerical regime

Many people have died and their homes have been destroyed by severe flooding across Iran.
Thousands of people have been suffering homelessness and lack of food for days. The people are angry with the government. They count the government for the responsibility of the flood disaster. The following article in Iran Freedom is informative.
Torrent Of People’s Wrath; A Chime For Mullahs’ Demise



Doubtless, the torrent caused by Iranians’ wrath will be stronger and more destructive than nature’s flood since the social wrath against usurpers of power is unstoppable. Thus, the mullahs’ scheme to censor news on country’s destructive flood will not avail them of the consequences.

The propaganda machine of the religious fascism ruling Iran has focused on censoring the news and … More


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