Student Day Speech on Freedom and Resistance

The last group and individuals a student must see and hear on Student Day

It is you, whose hands and every breath, every

breath reeks of blood. You who killed innocent Jina, Nika, and

Hadis, each year, when your breath, reeking of blood, is seized by fear of people's

presence at the anniversary of their deaths, fill the streets with your presence. But a woman's voice does not die.

But the voice of women does not die.

You who profit from sanctions and plunder livelihoods that grow smaller every year.

Every year. You kill workers' livelihoods, sucking the life from

the last gasps of this land's economy, if anything remains of its lifeless body.

If anything remains of its lifeless body. Contrary to your slogans, you embody a royal

lifestyle, and repression is the only response you hold in your fists.

But life does not die. You who, 27 years after the state murder of

Mokhtari and Pouyandeh, fear a few people gathering beside

their graves, and fear the pen and the voice.

You kill and kill. But you do not know.

You do not know that freedom's voice will not be silenced.

We proudly proclaim that the voice of Woman, Life, Freedom will neither die nor

be silenced. Woman, Life, Freedom. Not one word less, not one

word more. So kill us.

No, no, sir. Please show some respect.

No, let her speak. Let her speak.

Please let her speak.

Please say these things there, too.

Perhaps one day, our beautiful Lady Iran, through your knowledge and ignorance

and your foolish policies, will have neither air to breathe

nor water to quench her thirst.

But even then, there will be a voice, there will be a pen. Even if you smash up this entire house,

that day, you still will not sleep peacefully for fear of our bones.

Happy Student Day to all students who have a fist to clench and

a voice to shout with. Goodbye.