As details of the death toll for January’s protests continue to emerge, three students explain why they are resisting a return to normality

As details of the death toll for January’s protests continue to emerge, three students explain why they are resisting a return to normality

More than 45 days after a brutal January crackdown that left thousands of Iranian protesters dead, students across several universities are protesting again. As Iran’s new academic term began on Saturday, students in Tehran gathered on campus, chanting anti-government slogans, despite a heavy security presence and plainclothes officers stationed outside university gates.

The Guardian spoke to protesting students about why they were rallying despite the fact that thousands had been killed and tens of thousands arrested in the January demonstrations.

“Our classrooms are empty because the graveyards are full,” said Hossein*, 21, a student at the University of Tehran. “It’s for them – our friends, classmates and compatriots, who were gunned down in front of our eyes, that we decided to boycott the classes.”

  • couldhavebeenyou@lemmy.zipEnglish
    32·
    16 hours ago

    Why would you say

    how can anyone print that number?

    when no one printed it?

    You’re using it to back up someone saying we can’t “trust the murderous media” but it’s just lies

    • wheezy@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      10 hours ago

      Look dude. Just because you were not paying attention to articles at the time doesn’t mean I’m wrong.

      https://www.reddit.com/r/NewIran/s/mEVnnKEJ4w

      This same shit was spreading around social media and many news outlets printed “some estimates inside Iran put the number at 80,000”.

      It was bull shit and every single outlet that printed it has modified their reports since. I’m not sure why it’s so hard for you to believe that the media grabbed the largest number they could and ran with it for a day.

      I’ve shown you where this number came from. It’s not “just a post on Twitter”. It was from inside the country during a total internet blackout. The media ate it up for a day because there was nothing else coming out of Iran at the time.

      Why is this so hard to understand? What evidence are you looking for? Because it’s gonna be tweets or “way back machine” articles from Fox/NewsMax or Israeli newspapers. I’ll find them tonight if I have time. But you are just as capable of looking.

      Yes, believe it or not, I made a comment about something that I literally saw happening in real time and didn’t bookmark. Fuck me right?

      • couldhavebeenyou@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        40 minutes ago

        Reddit/NewIran

        with source… just a post on twitter

        It was bull shit and every single outlet that printed it has modified their reports since.

        If this claim is correct it’d indeed be easy to prove using the Internet Archive. If you’re watching NewsMax and telling us it’s proof we shouldn’t trust the press then… yeah

        Looks to me like you’ve been duped by Khamenei’s alt account on twitter and concluded you should look away and go back to sleep

        • wheezy@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          24 minutes ago

          Yes. That was literally my point mate. That news outlets lie and print shit that isn’t confirmed. Thanks for understanding my initial comment this deep into the thread.

          I wasn’t “duped”. I was literally pointing out the bull shit coverage in my first comment.

          I never once said I thought that number was real or that I believed the outlets that spread it.