Since 16 Azar
Dec 13th, 2009 by pedestrian
The University of Tehran has been in turmoil since last Monday (16 Azar). Some faculties have not had any classes for more than a week now. Monday and Tuesday, bodybuilders claiming to be basijis had surrounded some of the faculties for a “religious celebration” (anyone with a Shia upbringing knows that the celebrations are ALWAYS held before an event, and not after. And eid was on Sunday). They were using the card shown above [via AyandehNews].
Students have been arrested, some parts of the open space in the school have been set on fire, IRIB has been continously airing the image of Ayatollah Khomeini being ripped and it is still not clear if it was even the students who ripped it (I strongly doubt it) … The seminaries in major cities were on strike “protesting” the incident, and students at U of T are refusing to go to class for reasons that are unclear. They claim they will get the university president – who is charged with opening the university doors to militias on the night of June 15th, when the dorms were raided – to resign. But not going to class fits in so nicely with the narrative the government is trying to create. The kids have to be the grownups here, and for now, there simply aren’t any grownups at all.
Mousavi’s website has warned of “suspicious/chaotic events that may be awaiting the next few days.”
I just don’t get you sometimes. I don’t.
More or less a sure and certain marker of state interference within a peaceful democratic movement is the emergence of violence within this democratically motivated movement – at least in post-war Germany:
Violence in post-war Germany – worthy of that label – has usually been instigated by (West—and East-German) state-official organs – as has come out (only) recently :
a) The killing of a non-involved student (Benno Ohnesorg) during Anti-Shah-demonstrations in Berlin in 1967 was brought about by a West-German policeman who at the same time was AN AGENT OF THE EAST GERMAN SECRET SERVICE (as now has been seeping through the files for the last three of four months of 2009). The following days saw many demonstrations throughout the whole republic against police brutality. This death alone was the reason for the year-long intensifying, expanding and sometimes radicalizing demonstrations of the German student movement
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl-Heinz_Kurras
b) On April 11, 1968, Rudi Dutschke, one of the speakers of this movement was shot in the head by a Josef Bachmann. He was very seriously injured and died many years later due to the injuries received. Josef Bachmann had close ties to the German Neo-Nazi-scene, had been trained to aim and shoot by a NPD-member (NPD = a German Neo-Nazi party) and had been provided with arms and ammunition by the same NPD-individual before his assassination attempt. Last week it transpired that this NPD-member (supporting the would-be-assassin Josef Bachmann) had been A DOUBLE-AGENT OF BOTH THE WEST-GERMAN AND THE EAST-GERMAN SECRET SERVICES.
The URL-links of
a) the respected Swiss daily “Neur Zürcher Zeitung” (NZZ)
b) the respected German weekly “Spiegel”
are unfortunately available in German only:
http://www.nzz.ch/nachrichten/kultur/aktuell/fuer_geschichtsrevisionismus_reichen_die_fakten_nicht_1.4162002.html
http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/0,1518,665421,00.html
c) After the attempted assassination the revolt against the government reached its climax in May 1968. Students, schoolchildren and members of workers’ unions formed a group of 80,000 people who demonstrated in the capital Bonn against the emergency legislature. A radicalization set in, starting with the throwing of Molotov cocktails onto the building of the “Springer” press (the publishing firm “Springer” being made responsible for the instigation of an atmosphere of utter hatred against the demonstrating students and their democractic aims). The Molotov cocktails setting some transport vehicles of that newspaper company alight had been provided and forced upon the students involved in this violence by Peter Urbach, AN AGENT OF THE WEST-GERMAN INTELLIGENCE SERVICE. Peter Urbach also provided the terrorist Baader-Meinhof group with weapons.
German link:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Urbach
English link:
http://rupertgoldsworthygallery.blogspot.com/
Why would you say that they are not being “grown ups”? When so many students have exhibited such bravery and courage, it seems a bit cruel to being calling (“the kids”) childish at a time like this. What would you consider “responsible”????
have you seen this – an interesting read
Pensive Persian, what don’t you get?
Inna, I have!
Leyla, what I saw in the students after 16 azar was far from being grown up … we expect too much of them, but when their elders are fucking things up, they have no choice but to grow up fast! And what came out of their canceling classes for two weeks?! Except for giving the Ahmadinejad camp a possibility of closing down the schools all together?
German, the emergence of violence … and ignorance … as all the moderate voices are silenced (intentionally of course).