Swarms of Iranian student activists at Amir-Kabir University in Tehran protested against the country’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) Friday and Saturday over the regime’s downing of a Ukrainian commercial airliner according to various reports.
Of the 176 who perished in the plane crash as a result of the Islamic Republic’s actions, many of the fatalities were students and faculty of Iranian descent from the University of Alberta in Edmonton.
International Correspondent for the Independent, Borzou Daragahi posted a video on Twitter showing students confronting the IRGC and chanting, “Resignation is not enough. Prosecution is necessary.”
Wow: Iranian students in front of Amir Kabir University in Tehran protest regime downing of passenger plane full of students. "Resignation is not enough. Prosecution is necessary," they chant https://t.co/xBG3cQINPe
— Borzou Daragahi 🖊🗒 (@borzou) January 11, 2020
In another Tweet of Daragahi says the students are chanting at security forces, “Clerics must get lost.”
Just before regime attack on grieving @amirkabir students, they had begun chanting slogans against regime. "Clerics must get lost," they chant pic.twitter.com/avFZQaCaAL
— Borzou Daragahi 🖊🗒 (@borzou) January 11, 2020
Other journalists covering Iran have tweeted out similar video including Masih AlineJad who tweeted student protests happening against the Islamic Republic at Tehran’s Sharif University as well.
Protests are reported in Tehran's Sharif University as well. Students are chanting : "Khamenei have some shame! Get your hands off our country".
Iranians are furious with the regime after it shot down a civilian aircraft due to recklessness that claimed more than 176 lives pic.twitter.com/cIc9pX9Ntm
— Masih Alinejad 🏳️ (@AlinejadMasih) January 11, 2020
The Iranian government conceded Friday its military was responsible for shooting down the Ukrainian commercial jet.
Iranian foreign minister Mohamad Javad Zarif on twitter sent out condolences saying, “profound regrets, apologies and condolences,” however he shifted blame to the U.S., alluding to President Trump’s earlier decision this week to send a deadly drone strike after IRGC commander Qassem Soleimani.
Zarif wrote, “Human error at time of crisis caused by US adventurism led to disaster.”
A sad day. Preliminary conclusions of internal investigation by Armed Forces:
Human error at time of crisis caused by US adventurism led to disaster
Our profound regrets, apologies and condolences to our people, to the families of all victims, and to other affected nations.
💔— Javad Zarif (@JZarif) January 11, 2020