NCRI urges students to rise up against Mullahs’ occupation

Eslam Mohamed

Day after day, the gap between the mullahs regime and its people is growing in the wake of the economic sanctions imposed by the United States to curb Iran’s subversive role in the region. The protests are widening to include segments and cities that were not covered by the crisis before, protesting the regime’s inability to perform its tasks.

Since December 2017, the Iranian street has been suffering because of the muddled regime of the mullahs and the spending state budgets in military adventures in neighboring countries. The situation even worsened after the U.S. sanctions imposed in August last year, followed the imposition of large sanctions involving more than around one thousand individuals and entities affiliated with Iran.

A statement by the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) said some 17.5 million students who go to schools and universities this year are a big army of knowledge and awareness. As the experience of contemporary history has repeatedly proven, they can also develop powerful and energetic movements to fight medieval dictatorships.

There were over 1,000 cases of teachers’ strikes and protests in 156 Iranian cities last year. The number of student protests in universities also exceeded 180 cases across the country, the statement said, adding that retired teachers also held 12 remarkable acts of protest for their part, including outside government centers in Tehran.

“Iranian students, teachers, and professors are rising up to build a free Iran for tomorrow, to establish a society based on freedom, democracy, equality, and separation of religion and state, and to set up a democratic educational regime.”

The council also urged Iranian students to rise up to continue the uprisings and to free Iran from the occupation of the mullahs.

“Turn every school and university into a Resistance Unit, and every city of Iran into a Rebellious City,” the statement said.

Iranian affairs expert Mohamed Abady said workers, teachers. Farmers and truck drivers who do not receive their salaries have remarkably joined the revolution en masses for the difficult economic situations.

The Iranian expert added to The Reference that interference by the Iranian regime in the affairs of neighboring countries has received major resentment, even if the regime managed to get away with previous crises, this period seems so hard to surpass. He added that Iranian officials like former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad predict a potential revolution soon.

“Continuous protests, even in small numbers, indicate that the state of tension among the Iranian people is starting to boil over, which would explode in the form of a popular uprising.