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The July 9, 1999 Tehran student rebellion was the single most important movement against the Islamic Republic government. The student movement had steadily got more and more furious against the useless Islamic government who had failed to bring about any changes, even under the name of Khatami’s ‘reformist government’.The students were ready to rebel against […]

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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 […]

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Hamed Beheshti, an Iranian blogger in Beirut claims that when he was at a dinner with Dr. Hossein Rahal, the spokesman for Hezbullah, the Iranian guests there told Rahal about the popularity Hezbollah has gained since the last summer’s war with Israel, mainly between some Iranian youth who apparently wear t-shirts with pictures of Hassan […]

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Because of violence against the students,
the harasat office
has been closed by the students!
Allameh University, Tehran
It looks like the students at Allameh university have had enough of the violence used by the harasat forces in their university!
Harasat forces are yet another unofficial police force present on university campuses across Iran. They are present at university […]

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This morning when Arman Sadeghi and Ismail Salmanpour, both members of the Islamic Student Association activist body at Amir Kabir University in Tehran, tried to enter the university they were attacked by the university’s security guards who were ordered to do so by the university’s president, Dr. Ali-Reza Rahayi, who […]

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The first day of the elections for the student activist body ISA finally took place today, and as speculated, there were many clashes between the voting students and Basiji revolutionary guard “students” who tried to interrupt the elections.
The AKU Students Union who had asked for a chance to organise an event on the recent […]

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The run up to the elections of the student activist Islamic Student Association (ISA) some of it which I had covered earlier has developed in to crisis.
Student activist Babak Zamanian (pictures to the right), who is a committee member of ISA, was arrested on Saturday 21st of April while he was on his way to […]

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Babak Zamanian, a student at Amir Kabir University, one of the most politically active institutions in Tehran, is on crutches in this earlier photo (New York Times) because of a beating by supporters of President Ahmadinejad.

Last week he was arrested by the regime because of the interviews he gave to radio stations that broadcast outside […]

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