As details of the death toll for January’s protests continue to emerge, three students explain why they are resisting a return to normality
More than 45 days after a brutal January crackdown that left thousands of Iranian protesters dead, students across several universities are protesting again. As Iran’s new academic term began on Saturday, students in Tehran gathered on campus, chanting anti-government slogans, despite a heavy security presence and plainclothes officers stationed outside university gates.
The Guardian spoke to protesting students about why they were rallying despite the fact that thousands had been killed and tens of thousands arrested in the January demonstrations.
“Our classrooms are empty because the graveyards are full,” said Hossein*, 21, a student at the University of Tehran. “It’s for them – our friends, classmates and compatriots, who were gunned down in front of our eyes, that we decided to boycott the classes.”
Now that’s A+ gaslighting. It ABSOLUTELY says what I say it says.
We shoot a hole in a bucket then decades later engage in handwringing with gullible libs that would believe ANYTHING about why we need to intervene to shore up the problems we caused in the first place.
There aren’t too many sentences there. You can do this.
I get where you’re clumsily aiming at but the current situation is what it is. The Iranian people don’t gain shit when we limit ourselves to reciting history to eachother
At least I’m not clumsily implying that for some odd reason, we suddenly need to go act as world police as a response to what amounts to our own outrage-farming bullshit. Hilarious that you (or whoever you’re an unwitting or paid dupe for) think anyone would fall for this at all.