Iranian students protest compulsory hijab, university costs as campus unrest returns
Iranian university students protested against compulsory hijab and worsening economic conditions, with Basij forces accused of threatening demonstrators during the campus gathering. Students at Tehran’s Allameh Tabataba’i University, a large public university specializing in the social sciences, began protesting on Monday against compulsory hijab , university fees, and a lack of welfare services for students, according to footage of the protest. The students were recorded chanting, “Death to tyranny, hijab, and the morality police” and “The regime’s slogan is dialogue, but their guns are aimed at us” outside the university’s mosque. The Basij gathered the protesting students under the guise of listening to their complaints, but they went on to threaten to put them in a goni (“sack”), according to the student-run independent media platform Amirkabir. The Basij’s comment was largely interpreted as a threat of violence, according to Iranian student platforms. In J...
