Reuters
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Students held protests at a number of Iranian universities initially of a new semester on Saturday, some clashing with pro-government teams, based on native information companies and posts on social media.
The protests coincided with ceremonies historically held after 40 days to mourn these killed by safety forces throughout final month’s anti-government demonstrations, which noticed 1000’s lose their lives within the worst home unrest, opens new tab since Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution.
A video purportedly confirmed rows of marchers at Tehran’s Sharif University of Technology condemning Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as a “murderous leader,” and calling for Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of Iran’s toppled shah, to be a new monarch.
State-affiliated information companies such as SNN carried movies of clashes, with protesters allegedly injuring volunteer scholar Basij militia by throwing rocks at Iran’s prime engineering university. Pro-government Basij members usually help safety forces in quelling protests.
Protests had been additionally held in Beheshti and Amir Kabir universities within the capital Tehran and Mashhad University within the northeast, based on movies revealed by rights group HAALVSH, which Reuters couldn’t confirm.
In the western city of Abdanan, a hotspot for protests, demonstrators chanted “Death to Khamenei” and “Death to the dictator” after the arrest of an activist trainer, based on rights group Hengaw and social media posts.