یکشنبه، بهمن ۲۹، ۱۳۸۵

From Regime Spokesperson to Demands for Democracy

Recent student gatherings and protests indicate that student organizations across Iran have adopted a new perspective, role and ways which are a significant departure from the original role that had been envisioned for them.

After the 1979 revolution, every party and political group in the country had a base in every university across the country, and thus supporters. After the cultural revolution, however, when universities were shut and reopened in 1984, only Islamic student associations survived the purges and thus re-activated their presence and work on campuses. But because of the new atmosphere in the universities and student movement peculiarities on one hand, and the general conditions of the country where differences among the ruling factions of the Islamic Republic were on the rise on the other, the nature of the student movement too changed.
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