Tehran students vow to avenge classmates’ death in protest
Students held a large gathering today in the campus of the Tehran Azad University’s Science and Research Department in protest to the unaccountability of university officials on the death of 10 people killed in a bus accident in the mountainous regions of the capital. The bus was carrying 30 students along a mountainous road within the science research campus of the Islamic Azad University in northwestern Tehran when it came off the road and hit a concrete column on Christmas day. The protesters chanted against university officials demanding their resignation. “Velayati shame on you, abandon the university,” they chanted addressing Ali Akbar Velayati , the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Azad Islamic University . The former Minister of Foreign Affairs and MP, who currently holds 37 official simultaneous posts including 23 educational/medical positions, nine political positions and 6 cultural positions, is reportedly close to Iran’s Supre...