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Iran Focus
Tehran, Iran,
Nov. 28 – Iranian students from a university in the northern town of Babol
held a demonstration on campus, a state-run news agency reported on Monday.
The students from Babol Technical
University protested on
Sunday a suspension of their union’s activities, the news agency ISNA
reported.
They also blamed the university’s regulations watchdog for prohibiting their
activities by changing their union’s charter.
Several anti-government protests by thousands of students also erupted in the
Iranian capital Tehran
on Sunday in response to an increasingly harsher government crackdown on
campus activists.
In one incident, students at the University
of Tehran refused to
attend classes in the morning and gathered outside the campus library to
demonstrate against the appointment of a cleric as the new chief of the
university. Ayatollah Amid Zanjani, a notorious
religious prosecutor in the 1980s, was installed on Sunday as the new
university chancellor. His predecessor, an academic, expressed surprise at
“the unprecedented haste over the transition”.
The students chanted, “Appointed head, resign now!” and “Even if we students
die, we will not accept humiliation”.
As protests got heated several students pushed the ayatollah and threw his
turban off his head.
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