Iranian Students' Political Activism

We’re now joined by Mohsen Mohemeni, a member of the Iran

International editorial team, to tell us about the Islamic Republic’s security measures in

schools and the deployment of supporters and affiliates for political indoctrination

of students in greater detail.

Mr. Mohemeni, how has the start of the school year in Iran been?

Mansour, what we just saw in the video, the sound we heard in the video, and the slogan

that was chanted at the end were exactly what the Islamic Republic tried to fight against these past few

months with all its might, to prevent it from happening. But it happened.

اما افتاد.

Universities reopened, and gatherings at

universities began, with students chanting protest slogans, and now in

schools, which have also reopened, the videos, images, and

accounts reaching us show that the atmosphere of national revolution that

they tried to suppress, that they tried to kill, is alive, and

its voice can still be heard in students’ slogans.

The videos we received showed the burning of photos of Ruhollah Khomeini,

Ali Khamenei, and Mojtaba Khamenei in textbooks by

students. They also showed the removal of pictures or framed photos

that had been put up on

classroom walls, including pictures of Mojtaba Khamenei.

They took them down and trampled them. They wrote graffiti or

wrote the names of those forever remembered on classroom blackboards.

They wrote the slogan “Long Live the Shah,” and this was what

in recent months, by deploying armed forces and the presence of

commanders in schools, they tried to prevent, but it did not happen.

Students and university students are still calling out

the names of those forever remembered, honoring their memory, and

repeating the slogans of the national revolution in educational settings.

I thank my colleague, Mohsen Mohemeni, for his explanations.