Anti-government demonstrations and strikes at Iran’s universities and schools show the regime’s failure to instill its ideology for more than 40 years, one expert said.
researcher Azadeh Dabati said in a November 6 interview with Iran International: student protests and slogans Since September, it has challenged the ideology that the Islamic Republic has tried to teach young people throughout its 43-year existence.
“The Islamic Republic’s attempts to indoctrinate students through textbooks have had the exact opposite result. Students take off their headscarves and remove pictures of regime leaders in classrooms. Too many girls are entering school without a hijab, chanting slogans, recording them on their mobile phones and posting the videos on social media. It represents a major ideological defeat,” the commentator stressed.
Iranian schoolchildren chanted slogans and went on strike to catch up with Sunday’s daily protests and show their outrage over the government’s crackdown on old protesters.
College students insist on going to campus despite all the restrictions imposed, but they go on strike there and do not attend class.
Students from nearly all universities in Tehran and several other cities called sit-ins and strikes demanding the immediate release of their previously detained comrades.
In recent days, security forces have stepped up measures to search students as they enter the campus and take away their mobile phones to prevent them from recording video.
Protest at Tehran University of Science on October 25
Many students have been arrested since anti-government demonstrations began in September. Some have been kidnapped by security forces and often remain missing for days.
In a terrifying move, the Tehran Academy of Arts has announced that it has suspended all drama graduate students and will not be able to take their final exams.
However, the students stress that they will not stop striking until their demands are met. Several professors have also announced that they will refuse to teach until the student’s dismissal is reversed and they return to class.
Iran’s social and civil movements have always relied on student activism, so Davachi believes the perseverance of students striking and protesting 50 days after a nationwide demonstration is crucial.
The researcher at Deakin University in Melbourne told Iran International that a key factor that distinguishes this movement from previous movements is that the slogans are more radical in colleges and schools.
“Student actions can strengthen other civil movements and strengthen mass protest movements. Older protesters support each other in some way,” Dabachi added.
She went on to say that the demand by students is what young people want as they are a large group in the Iranian population.
She further thought that clerical rulers raised a new generation in schools that were very committed to their values, but recent events in colleges and schools have shown quite the opposite. said to have been proven.
Women play a very important role in the protest movement, she reiterated, adding: “If the popular uprising against the regime is victorious, women should not be left behind with their demands, as was the 1979 revolution.” Without it, women would play a very important role in the protest movement…Free Iran.”
