Four students from universities across Iran talk to The Washington Post about their role in the protests, amid constant surveillance and the threat of arrest.
Hamed, a 25-year-old student at Guilan University in Rasht, a northern city along the Caspian Sea, said rules around gender segregation were enforced sporadically in the past: some teachers, for example, let students sit together in class, while others separated them.
At Razi University in Kermanshah, a predominantly Kurdish city in the west, 20-year-old Nastaran told The Post the protests had not spread yet to the dining halls “because [students] are still afraid.”Protests have persisted because Iranians have “a shared pain" of loving their country while “being deprived of the most basic rights of living and wanting a brighter future,” she said."Unfortunately, the government has no strategies whatsoever in facing such protests.
University students have long been the “torch bearers” of pro-democracy movements in Iran, said Foroogh Farhang, a doctoral candidate at Northwestern University. While studying as an undergraduate in Iran, she was suspended from her university in the aftermath of pro-democracy protests in 2009.
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