{"id":1869,"date":"2022-10-02T18:06:05","date_gmt":"2022-10-02T18:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/?p=1869"},"modified":"2022-10-03T18:10:57","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T18:10:57","slug":"iran-riot-police-clash-with-students-protesting-young-womans-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/?p=1869","title":{"rendered":"Iran riot police clash with students protesting young woman&#8217;s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/iransos.com\/en\/photo\/2011\/i\/ir-protest-22-10.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A police motorcycle burns during a protest over the death of Mahsa Amini, a woman who died after being arrested by the Islamic republic&#8217;s &#8220;morality police&#8221;, in Tehran, Iran September 19, 2022. WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">DUBAI, Oct 2 (Reuters) &#8211; By Parisa Hafezi &#8211;\u00a0<\/span> Iranian security forces clashed with students at a prominent university in Tehran on Sunday, social and state media reported, in the latest sign of a deadly clampdown on nationwide protests that were ignited by the death in custody of a young woman.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The anti-government protests, which began at 22-year-old Mahsa Amini&#8217;s funeral on Sept. 17 in the Kurdish town of Saqez, have spiralled into the biggest show of opposition to Iran&#8217;s authorities in years, with many calling for the end of more than four decades of Islamic clerical rule.<\/p>\n<p>Activist Twitter account 1500tasvir, which has around 160,000 followers, posted several videos showing Sharif University, traditionally a hotbed of dissent, surrounded by dozens of riot police.<\/p>\n<p>One of the videos showed security forces firing teargas to drive the students off the campus and the sound of what appeared to be shooting at a distance could be heard.<\/p>\n<p>Another video showed security forces chasing dozens of students trapped in the university&#8217;s underground parking. The account said dozens of students had been arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian state media described &#8220;reports of clashes&#8221; at the university and said the country&#8217;s science minister visited the campus to check on the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters could not independently verify the events at the university.<\/p>\n<p>Students had been protesting at numerous universities on Sunday and demonstrations were held in several cities such as Tehran, Yazd, Kermanshah, Sanandaj, Shiraz and Mashhad, with participants chanting &#8220;independence, freedom, death to Khamenei,&#8221; earlier social media posts showed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI, Oct 2 (Reuters) &#8211; By Parisa Hafezi &#8211;\u00a0 Iranian security forces clashed with students at a prominent university in Tehran on Sunday, social and state media reported, in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[551],"class_list":["post-1869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-iran-protest-22"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1870,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869\/revisions\/1870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}