Tehran universities suspend face-to-face classes amid protests

The main universities in Tehran suspended face-to-face classes this Saturday, September 24, and opted for “online” teaching.a measure that will be applied throughout this week in the midst of the protests by Mahsa Amini.

The educational authorities have justified the measure by the two holidays this week, on Sunday for the anniversary of the death of Muhammad, and on Tuesday for the Imam Reza.

This same Saturday the Iranian academic year began and the suspension of face-to-face classes was announced on September 23 in the afternoon in most cases.

The Iranian workweek starts on Saturday and ends on Wednesday, with Thursday and Friday as days off.

A person linked to an educational center in Tehran explained to Efe that the suspension of face-to-face classes has been justified “for convenience”, but explained that in his opinion it is due to the protests.

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The main universities of the capital such as those of Tehran, Amir Kabir, Shahid Beheshti or Allame Tabatabaí have been the scene of protests this week over the death of Amini after being arrested by the Moral Police for wearing her mandatory veil wrong.

Those protests happened when the academic year had not yet started.but the educational centers were open with summer courses and registrations.

The dead and the chaos that the country is experiencing

Iranian state television raised the dead to 35 in the protests that shake the country for eight days in the case of Mahsa Amin, who died after being arrested for not wearing the veil properly, a mandatory garment in the Persian country.

“35 people have died, including police officers, in the riots,” state television ‘IRIB’ said in its news on September 24.

The protests began on Friday the 16th when the death of Mahsa Amini was known after being arrested by the Moral Police for wearing the veil wrong and have been spreading throughout the country.

In recent days it is more difficult to follow what is happening, given the restrictions that the authorities are imposing on the Internet. Well, the government began on Wednesday to restrict the internet.
In addition, it banned mobile networks and broadcast platforms, making it difficult for protesters, journalists and activists to use social networks to share photos, videos and information about what is happening.

(Also read: Iran blocks access to social networks due to protests that have already claimed 17 lives).

In turn, the Iranian Army warned that “it is ready” to help the Police deal with the protesters “to defend national security.”

The military described the protests as “desperate actions of the enemy’s diabolical strategy to weaken the Islamic regime”, following the government version that the demonstrations are incited by the “foreign enemy” with the intervention of embassies and intelligence services of other countries. .

Despite internet outages and warnings from the authorities that they will not allow “chaos”, many Iranians protested again last night in many parts of the country.

“You can’t kill us all,” a protester shouted at police in the northern city of Rudsar, according to an unverified video shared by activists and journalists.

Amini was arrested on Tuesday of last week by the so-called Morale Police in Tehran, where she was visiting, and was taken to a police station to attend “an hour of re-education” for wearing the veil wrong.

He died three days later in a hospital where he arrived in a coma after suffering a heart attack, which the authorities have attributed to health problems, something rejected by the family.

His death has galvanized thousands of Iranians through grief and empathy.unlike other occasions in which the demonstrations were reduced to fragmented social groups mobilized by the economy.

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