Iran: Nearly 3,000 students gathered in Sistan and Baluchistan University

Wednesday, 12 November 2008
NCRI – Nearly 3,000 students gathered on campus of Sistan and Baluchistan University in the southeastern city of Zahedan, on Tuesday. Protesting students chanted anti-government slogans such as: "The incompetent university chancellor must resign," "The incompetent chancellor must be fired."

Angry demonstrators protested to an earlier attack by the school security guards on students which left two casualties among their classmates.

The striking students gathered outside Examinations Hall on the university grounds and called for an end to student harassments by the university officials.

According to last reports, a graduate student was stabbed by the mullahs' agents and is in critical condition at a nearby hospital.

Sistan and Baluchistan province is the most deprived part of Iran. Mullahs' regime pays no attention to the problems of the local residents and utilizes extreme measures in suppressing popular protests in the region.
Religious beliefs play an important role in Sistan and Baluchistan region. The majority of the people are Sunnis and that alone is considered a big crime in the eyes of the ruling clerics in Iran.

In September, an entire theology school belonging to Sunni denomination was completely leveled by the State Security Forces (SSF) – mullahs' suppressive police in Sistan and Baluchestan. The mullahs' inhuman regime leveled Abu Hanifa Sunni School of Theology on August 27, using bulldozers and other heavy building machinery in Azimabad, a suburb of the city of Zabol.The school belonged to Sunni Muslims who are brutally suppressed by the Iranian regime since the early days of the clerical rule. The SSF demolition units arrived at the school in the early morning hours and leveled all the buildings including a few mobile homes used by the summer students as sleeping quarters. The SSF units also brought down a few donated houses by local residents providing much needed class rooms. Despite the mullahs hypocritical claim that they respect the Sunni followers of Islam when it comes