Shiraz University president: We'll accept students expelled from US, European universities

[TheProle]

The transfer portal is now open. Any guesses on how many will take him up on his kind offer. Surely "Queers for Palestine" will be first in line, yeah?

Mohammad Mozni, the president of Iran's Shiraz University, said on Monday that American and European students and faculty expelled from their institutions over their support for Gaza could continue their studies at his university, Iran International reported.

https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-799158

[jimfields33]

1. Sounds wonderful. Sign them up.

[getagrip_already]

2. Surely all the women with short skirts and tank tops will be first in line

They will be welcome with swinging batons.

[JustAnotherGen]

3. That's crazy town!

Well - we can at least get rid of the pro Sharia.

Now all we need is an out of country University for Christian Theocrats and my day will be complete!

[JustAnotherGen]

4. Wait until they find

The penalty for protest is over there . . .

https://democraticunderground.com/100218908847
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68840881

Nika Shakarami's disappearance and death were widely reported, and her picture has become synonymous with the fight by women in Iran for greater freedoms. As street protests spread across Iran in the autumn of 2022, her name was shouted by crowds furious at the country's strict rules on the compulsory veil [hijab].

The Woman, Life, Freedom movement had been sparked just days earlier by the death of a 22-year-old woman, Mahsa Amini. She died from injuries sustained in police custody according to a UN fact-finding mission after being accused of not wearing her hijab properly.

In Nika's case, her family found her body in a mortuary more than a week after she disappeared from a protest. But Iran's authorities denied Nika's death was connected to the demonstration and, after conducting their own investigation, said that she had died by suicide.

Just before she vanished, Nika was filmed on the evening of 20 September near Laleh Park in central Tehran, standing on a dumpster setting fire to hijabs.

It's like the Right wing idiots who move to Russia and think life is going to be wonderful!

[TheProle]

7. Secret document says Iran security forces molested and killed teen protester

An Iranian teenager was sexually assaulted and killed by three men working for Iran's security forces, a leaked document understood to have been written by those forces says.

It has let us map what happened to 16-year-old Nika Shakarami who vanished from an anti-regime protest in 2022.

Her body was found nine days later. The government claimed she killed herself.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68840881

[JustAnotherGen]

9. She set a hijab on fire

And was killed for it.

I can't imagine the torture if they take over a university and hold people hostage in Iran.

[Prairie Gates]

5. Just to be clear, is there some reason LGBTQ+ activists shouldn't support a ceasefire in Gaza

and a two-state solution that respects the autonomy and self-determination of the Palestinian people?

Should there be no such group as "Queers for Palestine?" Or are you critiquing the vicious, murderous homophobia of the Iranian regime? Or does the second necessarily make the first absurd? I'm not exactly clear on your point.

[TheProle]

6. I'm critiquing the homophobia in Iran

and contemplating the proximity of the university to the nearest strangling crane.

If there are queer people who want to advocate for a regime that would persecute them, they're absolutely free to do so. As I am free to think they are clowns on the order of Log Cabin Republicans.

[yardwork]

8. What freedoms are there for gay people in Gaza?

This is a serious question. As a gay woman, how would my rights be protected in Gaza? In Iran? Saudi Arabia? Any country in the ME except Israel?

[Cha]

10. Yeah, they don't appreciate what they have in the US.. maybe

that will be better for them?

[Vinca]

11. Excellent! Do the women get to wear beekeeper suits?

[brooklynite]

12. Another oppressive regime that nobody protests...