On Student Day, Iranian students vow to oppose suppression

In Student Day statements, Iranian student groups have criticised the government for suppressive methods in universities and vowed not to give up their fight for freedom, writes Maryam Sinaee for Iran International.

Student Day, which usually falls on 7 December, marks the anniversary of a student protest in 1953 against the visit of then-US vice president Richard Nixon during which three University of Tehran students were killed by the police.

Describing the present time as “one of the most suffocating eras for universities in Iranian history”, a group of students from Tarbiat Modares University, a graduate school based in Tehran, emphasised that despite their university being traditionally associated with the education of higher officials and managers of the Islamic regime, its students actively participated in the Woman, Life, Freedom movement.
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