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.”
1- then why the fuck are you here.
2- the guardian is a bourgeois publication.
Because I’m not a conservative, dumbass. I do care about civilian casualties.
The guardian crowdsources their funding from mostly small donations to maintain their independence from corporate interests.
1- then why do you have conservative pro-establishment pro-empire views?
2- the outlet spewing western propaganda nonstop is just a people-owned enterprise. yeah, right!
I don’t.
You’re calling it western propaganda because you either refuse to believe it or you’re actively peddling pro-mullah propaganda. Either way, I’m not wasting any more time on you.
1- you do, very much so.
2- i’m calling it western propaganda because it’s obviously manufacturing consent for an obvious attack by the us. spelling this out for you.
Not even a little bit. You don’t know what you’re fucking talking about. In fact, the Ayatollah, being the dictator of a theocratic regime, is far more right-wing and “conservative” than even the most centrist western neoliberals (which I’m not even that, by the way).
Have you forgotten about Mahsa Amini, who was murdered in police custody in 2021 for being a woman and not wearing her hijab “properly”?
By the way, is this the same The Guardian that you’re calling “western imperialist propaganda”?
you don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about.
ayatollah didn’t build a worldwide empire based on genocide and exploitation. you did.
He would if he could. But that’s neither here nor there, because this post isn’t about the west. It’s about Iranian student protesters, and you’re trying to say we shouldn’t give a fuck about them just because their oppressive government is anti-west.
Your red herrings are meaningless, because two things can be true at once. The Ayatollah is a violent dictator, but that doesn’t mean the west is faultless. And nobody here claimed that it is.
The point is that this article isn’t about the west, and you’re only trying to insert them into the conversation to deflect blame for the Ayatollah’s crimes against humanity.
i must have said this sudden coverage of iran’s protests is manufacturing consent for a us war against iran a few times in this thread already, but you just can’t seem to want to confront it.
it doesn’t matter what you think about iran, you have no right to kill more iranians, or meddle with their shit, or pretend to care about the instability you keep causing with blockades and sanctions.
give this a sincere read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change
in the meantime do the world a favor and stop voicing your excuses for supporting 21st century hitler in their fascist fucking crusade. you are currently on 2 simultaneous genocides atm, trying for a third while thinking yourselves moral and good for it.
in not wasting anymore time with the fascist libs in this thread, i’ll be out there puking from the fucking disgust.