The gates of the university were now shut. Behind them was a crowd of hundreds of young men and women, many wearing scarves over their mouths. I crossed the road. And the banners behind those forbidding gates told a frightening story. "Today is a day of mourning," one of them read. "Dignified students are mourners today." "Police, shame on you, shame on you." "Tell my mother - she doesn't have a son any more."
I walked up to the gate. Young female students were crying. So were some of the young men. "We don't want a government by coup," another poster read. "Tehran University dormitory has been coloured with students' blood," another said.
TEHRAN - University of Tehran Chancellor Farhad Rahbar has issued a statement condemning the attack on the university's students on Monday morning. "The invasion of the University of Tehran's dormitory, which is the symbol of higher education of the country... and the beating of the beloved students... have caused a wave of sorrow and chagrin in me," he said in the statement issued on Monday.
"The invasion of the University of Tehran's dormitory, which is the symbol of higher education of the country... and the beating of the beloved students... have caused a wave of sorrow and chagrin in me," he said in the statement issued on Monday.
