Azad University Students Continue To Protest

10 students were killed in a bus accident last week in Tehran’s Azad University in northern Tehran. The bus was carrying 30 students along a mountainous road within the university’s science and research campus when it veered off the road and hit a concrete column.

demonstrations over the bus accident were held on the third consecutive day On Sunday, Dec 30, 2018, outside Tehran’s Azad University in northern Tehran, Earlier protests took place inside the University campus. The Iranian authorities deployed scores of policemen to disperse 5000 protestors in downtown Tehran  

According to NCRI report, Thousands of students also rallied for the same cause On Saturday, Dec 29, 2018. Astronomical thefts and plundering the people’s assets by the leaders of the mullahs’ regime have made Iran one of the most vulnerable countries in the face of incidents such as traffic accidents, fires, earthquakes, and so on.

The head of the board of trustees of the Azad University, Ali Akbar Velayati, According to Iran News Wire Velayati, who is a former Minister of Foreign Affairs and MP, currently holds 37 official simultaneous posts including 23 educational/medical positions, nine political positions and 6 cultural positions, and is reportedly close to Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, as his chief foreign policy advisor.

On Monday, December 31, 2018, students at Tehran University and other academic institutions staged a demonstration at Enghelab Square and in front of Tehran University to protest the death of several students in the deadly bus accident a few days earlier.

Throngs of repressive forces, including anti-riot units and plainclothes agents had been stationed there to prevent the spread of the protest.

The students were chanting, “Have no fear, we’re all together,” “neither threats nor prison, can deter us,” and “death to the dictator.” Students rather die than tolerate humiliation; Velayati, Velayati, you are responsible for this crime; Incompetent person in charge, resign, resign! The incompetent person in charge should be tried! The students chanted in front of the university administration office: “You, shameless killer, come out!”

Plainclothes agents charged at the students and fired teargas canisters to disperse the crowd, who responded by chanting “you scoundrels”. The protesters called for the dismissal of Ali Akbar Velayti, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s advisor and Azad University’s Chairman of the Board of Trustees.

At the same time, Azad University students continued their protests for the third day running. They blocked the University’s main road despite the fact that intelligence agents, the so-called university security, had installed fences around the University Square the night before to prevent any gathering from taking shape. Students stopped a vehicle driven by the regime’s armed agents.

While expressing its sincere condolences for the demise of the students who lost their lives and wishing a speedy recovery for the wounded, the Iranian Resistance emphasizes the fact that the religious fascism ruling Iran is the main party responsible for this tragedy. Due to astronomical plunders and expenditures on suppression and terrorism, this regime has caused the highest rate of casualties in such incidents.

Association in Defense of Freedom in Iran (ADFI) is committed to defending Iranian individual rights and proud to provide legal and ethical support of their protests for freedom and democracy.