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ESCALATING PROTESTS SHOW THE ESCALATION OF THE RESISTANCE MOVEMENT IN IRAN

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The students at Khaje Nasiredeen University protesting the ruling regime and campus officials’ neglect of their human rights-March 2019 On Tuesday, March 12, reports emerged from  MEK  sources inside Iran of another series of protests breaking out across the country. Unpaid salaries have mobilized large swathes of the Iranian population. This time, it was clients of the Caspian credit firm, a company closely affiliated with the regime’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), that were demanding their money. People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) @Mojahedineng https:// goo.gl/jM2Jyh   Continued strikes of workers and the working people, and protests of looted people and other deprived people 33 3:10 PM - Mar 7, 2018 Twitter Ads info and privacy Continued strikes of workers and the working people, and protests of looted people and other... Iran Uprising - No. 102 On Monday, March 5, the strikes and protes...

Azad University’s bus accident, another manifestation of the Iranian regime’s corruption and incompetency

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An accident involving one of the busses of Tehran's Azad University left 10 dead and dozens injured  On Tuesday, December 25, 2018, a bus carrying students from the Science and Research unit of Tehran’s Azad University veered off a steep, mountainous road and crashed into a cement block, causing the death of 10 passengers and injuring 28 others. This was an incident that could’ve been avoided, had the Iranian regime provided its universities with better vehicles and maintenance services. The Azad University incident is not a one-off incident. It’s the manifestation of the awful state of Iran’s roads as well as the substandard equipment of its universities, both the result of four decades of corruption and mismanagement at the highest levels of power in the mullahs’ regime. In October, Iran’s Channel One television reported, “According to statistics, there have been 7,000 road casualties since the beginning of the year.” Despite warnings, Iranian authorities haven’t t...

Tehran students hold the third consecutive day of their protests

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Student protests in Tehran (Archive) On Monday, the students of Azad University’s Science and Research branch in Tehran held demonstrations in protest to last week’s  tragic bus incident , which left ten dead and dozens injured. The protesting students sat in the middle of the street and blocked the road. At the same time, college students of Tehran University rallied and held a march on Monday outside the campus, protesting crackdown measures against college students of Azad University’s Science and Research branch. The students were chanting, “No fear, we’re all together” and “Incompetent officials, resign, resign.” Reports also indicate protesters clashing with oppressive security forces as authorities are taking measures to prevent the rally from expanding. “Coward, coward,” are other chants heard from the protesters against authorities. Sources say regime agents sought to arrest a woman who was saved by other protesters. College students protesting outsid...