Kanal13Students in Iran’s Sharif University of Technology and Amirkabir University of Technology in Tehran have staged anti-government protests. The fresh demonstration by students at Sharif University of Technology turned into clashes after Basij militia members confronted protesters. Videos released in social media show students chanting “Shameless, shameless,” and “Death to Khamenei” during the demonstration. According to a social media video, students at Amirkabir University of Technology in Tehran shouted “Long live the King” during a gathering on Saturday, marking the first day of the new academic term. The footage captures a group of students on campus chanting the slogan together.
Student protests at Sharif University were reported in late December 2025 and January 2026. These gatherings have been part of a chain of protests across several major Iranian universities, including Tehran University and Amirkabir. Recall, families across Iran have commemorated loved ones killed during nationwide protests last month, while teachers said school strikes were taking place to protest the killings. Many attended ceremonies at Behesht-e Zahra, Tehran’s grand cemetery, which marked 40 days – a traditional period of mourning – since the nights of January 8 and 9, when thousands were killed amid an unprecedented state-imposed internet and phone-service shutdown. Chants of “for each person killed, thousands are behind them” could be heard in many of the ceremonies.
Mourners spread flower petals, lit candles and somberly clapped in solidarity with the families. Some of the commemoration events took place in smaller cities and villages, like Abdanan in the western province of Ilam, where thousands had participated in protests last month. The Coordinating Council of Iranian Teachers’ Trade Associations, a non-governmental body, said that its call for school strikes had been backed by large numbers of teachers and students. It said schools in the cities and towns of Shahr-e Rey, Baharestan, Pakdasht, Varamin, and Eslamshahr near Tehran were effectively shut due to the absence of students, while high school students in the town of Andisheh did not attend classes as a way to honour fellow students killed in the protests. “These strikes occurred despite threats to students and teachers against striking from school principals, who themselves have been pressured by the Ministry of Education,” the group said, adding that at least 230 children and teenagers were killed last month.
Iran’s Justice Minister Amin Hossein Rahimi confirmed to state media on Wednesday that some of the children and teenagers arrested during the protests remain incarcerated. He said “many” minors have been released without saying how many were arrested. Ehsan Azimirad, the spokesman of the parliament’s education commission, said that 17 percent of the participants in the nationwide protests were teenagers, many of them students. “I have even heard that in some schools, an entire class had participated in the riots,” he said, adding that in some provinces, up to 45 percent of protesters were under 20 years old. Officials have previously said that most of the protesters across the country were in their 20s.
