Assault on Amir Kabir University

Martyr burials and violence

اعتراض دانشجویان دانشگاه امیرکبیر (پلی تکنیک) به پروژه دفن شهید در این دانشگاه /

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امروز با آغاز نمایش قدرت حاکمیت در خیابان های تهران که با به راه انداختن هیئت های سینه زنی و مداحی در خیابان انقلاب از روبه روی دانشگاه تهران آغاز شد کمتر کسی تصور می کرد که این نیروی جیره خوار، در دانشگاه پلی تکنیک به سیل مخالفان دفن شهید در دانشگاه برخورد کند.




Assault on Amir Kabir University:Martyr Burials and Violenceby Rasmus Christian Elling.

This morning, armed forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran buried war victims inside the campus of Amir Kabir University in Tehran. The so-called nameless martyrs were buried amidst tumult and despite protests from student activists. Another symbolic and violent battle between regime-loyal and pro-democratic forces is being fought right now.

The idea of burying martyrs inside Tehran’s universities has a history.Ever since the idea was floated some six years ago, when Ahmadinejad was Tehran’s mayor, it has been a hotly contested topic.

Pro-democratic students have protested against the plans because they seeit as an instrument for the regime’s oppressive policy:

a) it is a way to impose on the university milieu and student life a militant ideology that praises shahâdat (the martyr death), war and military values associated with the Revolutionary Guards and the eulogizing of the eight-year war with Iraq;

b) it is a practical way for authorities to clamp down on student gatherings and demonstrations since it is stipulated that the area surrounding martyr graves be treated with utmost respect – indeed, it is prohibited to gather in large numbers in such areas for any other purpose than mourning (which certainly rules out political or cultural meetings);

and thus, c) it is part of a strategy to suppress dissident voices within Iran’s lively university environment. It is one of many tactics in the conservatives’ battle to ‘re-Islamize’ and regain control with Iran’s universities – universities that have struggled to persevere as the vigorous centers of political debate, dissident activities and alternative youth they became during the early days of Khatami’s reformist presidency in the late 1990s.

Read the whole story:cuminet.blogs.ku.dk/

Rasmus Christian Elling

University of Copenhagen

Visiting researcher, NYU

23-Feb-2009
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Hey guys check this siavash23

by I Kiss Shirin's Hands (not verified) on

Hey sialash,
Eff you and your muslim brothers who moftkhori is the core of your existance and religion(islam).
Iran is for Iranians, not your head to toe corrupt ideological stench.

Guys, as Shirin, my beloved hamvatan Shir-zan did, lets burn damn koran on upcoming Chaharshanbe-Soori celebration around the world and then kill the fire by a golden shower!!
Pleae pass it around.

I love it. islam has killed itself among Iranians faster than I even could imagine.


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No more free education

by Siavash23 (not verified) on

Start charging these "students" (moftkhors) tuition, fees, etc, for the privilege to attend such a prestigious university (Like everywhere else in the world, democracy or not). Or just replace them with good muslim kids from Lebanon, Palestine, Gaza, Africa.


Darius Kadivar

FYI/VEVAK ( IRI's Secret Services) denounced in French Book

by Darius Kadivar on

VEVAK ( IRI's Secret Services) denounced in French Book To be Released in April

//iranian.com/main/blog/darius-kadivar/vevak-iris-secret-services-denounced-french-book-be-released-april


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What I did after watching the assault on Amir Kabir University

by Shirin -- (not verified) on

I feel so good. I feel like a new person and am so happy. My husband and our two children are dancing with joy about what I did after watching mollahs turn Amir Kabir university (where I had graduated from) into another Rozeh Khoni center to teach anti Persian culture to students. I picked up the Quran that was given to me by my grand mother and set it on fire in our yard and we all jumped over it. Just like it was Charshanbe soori.

I chose to burn it because the writers of this book were the same degenerates who burned our Persian books and libraries when they invaded Iran.

These degenerate, anti Persian, women hating, illiterate, drunk barbarian Caliphehs who wrote this book as the word of god and put into law to enforce their power over the people did this some 40 - 60 years after Mohammad's death. So there is no way this book can be the word of god. Ever since the Arab invasion of Iran, Mollahs have used this same book that was written by the enemies of Iran to create job security for themselves, justify their existence and impose their Arab language and culture on us. Instead of respecting our Iranian culture of tolerance and freedom for all which was the norm in Iran.

I had been wanting to throw my copy of Quran in the trash and join tens of thousands of Iranians who have been tossing theirs into trash every week and join other religions or just give up on religions all together. But I never got around to do it. That is until I saw what they did to my university today.

Before my grand mother died, she gave her Quran to me as a keep sake and told me not to pay attention to what's written in it. She asked me to keep it for her and said some day, the time will come, when I would know what to do with it. I feel sorry for her. She knew what was in it. But she didn't have the courage to toss hers in the trash or burn it and not pass this man made book that codifies slavery of Persian women and men to the next generation.

May be my burning it today, would let her soul finally rest in peace. May be today was the day she was referring to when she told me some day I would know what to do with it. May be today will be the start of another Charshanbeh soori in my family and many others who finally say enough is enough of this Arab culture and arise to burn their Qurans till the house of mollahs burns down.

Shirin


Iranyvaliazad

They still fall for akhonds

by Iranyvaliazad on

Moslem clerics have created so called "emam-zadeh" or temples right on top of so called grave sof people whom supposed to be decendant of one them deciples that lived about 1200-1400 years ago.  And it is a known fact that many of these temples have a made up story behind them, such as the one that a moslem cleric built on top of grave of his donkey.

People need to realize that these bones that moslem clerics brings and bury them once in a while have nothing to do with the war dead.   There is no doubt in my mind that many of these coffins are filled with bones of road killed animals.  moslem clerics need to keep people preoccupied with these sort of "charandiat" ... 

Dear students please don't fall for tricks of akhonds ... by now, you all should know moslem clerics say nothing but LIES and do nothing but DECIET.


MRX1

islamic republic zoo

by MRX1 on

what a zoo islamic republic is, now they want to bury bodies in University grounds. what's next location kindegarden, park, resturant. this is so wrong.


Benyamin

Lack of democracy!

by Benyamin on

If there was a democratic process then we wouldn`t have had this chaos there or everywhere in Iran for that matter. There is no rule of concent of majority all it is the rule of theocracy or autocracy.

I have a  dream, that one day the dream of those that faught and died for the rule of democracy in Iran will prevail one day in Iran, NO ONE would ever be killed or tortured for the idea and the religion they believe in or get lashed simply for the way they dress up to impress the opposit sex. One day, Iran will be free, and that is the day that the souls of all fallen Iranian HEROS for FREEDOM will rest in peace. From Salar e melli, Sardar e melli to Mosadegh and all the intellectuals like Forouharha, sadegh e hedayat, Shamloo, and many others that were killed for Iran or died in exile.

One day their souls will take a deep sigh,and perhaps repeat with their childern"FREE AT LAST"

Amin 

 


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Violent Battle?

by Anonymous.... (not verified) on

There is nothing violent about this protest, so western reporters will play a more constructive role by reporting with some minimum level of cultural understanding in the region they cover.

These guys aren't running, they aren't arguing with one another so for all we know this could be just another long line of patrons waiting for some free checlo kabab served in honor of celeberating Imam hossein's birthday.