Posted in 18 Tir, Activism and opposition movements, Amir Kabir University, Basijis, ISA, Islamic Revolution, Political prisoners, Report, Second Cultural Revolution, Student activism, Tahkim Vahdat on Jul 12th, 2007 3 Comments »
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 head of the ILNA (”Iranian Labour News Agency”) Masoud Heidari resigned yesterday after pressure from the Islamic Republic.
Since Ahmadinejad came in to power, there has been a lot of pressure on this news agency because of their coverage of the politically active students who are now widely referred to as “Starred Students” (if they […]
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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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Yesterday the four members who are left from the Central Committee for the AmirKabir Polytechnic University ISA activist body were doing a sit in protest for their imprisoned classmates at the university when Rouzbahani, the head of the cultural affairs, came up to them and threatened them by saying that “Your efforts are against the […]
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Ali Saberi and Abbas Hakimzadeh student activists and key committee members of the politically active ISA body at Amir Kabir University in Tehran were both arrested and taken to infamous Section 209 in Evin prison on Wednesday.
The security forces searched their house and took their personal computers and CDs as evidence, while telling their family […]
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Ehsan Mansouri, the secretary of the political affairs of the ISA activist body who was banned from entering the Tehran Amir Kabir University last month, was finally arrested by revolutionary guards.
The arrest came after two weeks of harassment through phone calls and beatings of his family members during several visits they had made to […]
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A sign in Tehran reads:
Dear Tehran-based villager,
The new voice of the West: “Bad hejab, incivility, not praying, cigarettes, music, satellite, Internet, mobiles, anti-theft devises, illiteracy, ignorance, illness, insecurity, unawareness, humility, greediness” are forced on to humanity and turn humans in to lower level than animals!!!
Another warns women that if they dress up like westerners they […]
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In the last week over 40 students of the Amir Kabir University in Tehran have been called to meet the University Disciplinary Committee, six of these students have since been banned from attending the classes and the dormitories.
One of these students was Bijan Pouryousefi, a committee member of the student activist body ISA, has been […]
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It is not just the slutty hijab that bothers Islamic Republic. They have banned western haircut, ties, sugar and sugar cubes and imported tea.
Could this be the reason why this unidentified man torched himself outside Ahmadinejad’s office?
How about the Harasat, the security/moral police on university campuses across the country? They don’t just harass […]
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The ISA student activist body elections came to an end yesterday with more interruptions from the university security officers who banned even the ISA’s Secretary Tabatabi from entering the university and stopped a planned press conference from taking place on the campus regarding the elections.
Yesterday also the university security officers lead by a man […]
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