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The ISA student activist body at Tehran Allameh Tabatabaei University reports that the university has now gone as far as creating their own fake ISA body and has started to use the ISA logo with it!

University has reportedly put up huge banners around the university, honouring the “martyrs” of the Islamic Republic, using the name and logo for the ISA.

Similarly in late April the Basiji “students” at Tehran Amir Kabir University handed out fake issues of student publications which had very anti-regime articles and then used them as an excuse to first shut all the student publications down, arrest all the editors for them, and then physically attacking any student activists who protested with knife.

A Basiji “student” protest. Placard reads:
“Second cultural revolution: Today’s need at university”

The move comes after the Basiji “students” started calling the ISA “illegal” and asked for the “Second Cultural Revolution“, referring to a repeat of non-other than the Islamic Republic’s 1980-1987 cultural revolution to first shut down all universities, Islamicize all the courses, create an Islamic atmosphere, remove all foreign influences from the courses and also any lecturer with any connections to “East or West way of thought” (!)

Although Islamic Republic denies that the second cultural revolution has already started, since Ahmadinejad came in to power he has replaced all those academics suspicious of being modern free thinkers with his own friends from the Basjiji revolutionary guards or members of the elite clergy. This includes the presidents of the most prominent universities such as the Tehran University and Amir Kabir University.

When the newly selected president for Tehran University, cleric Abbas-Ali Amid Zanjani stepped in to the university for the first time last year, students attacked him and took off his turban: