Chaotic Situation in Iran

The blogger Pedestrian who is in Iran gives a good overview of what things have been like since 16 of Azar:

The University of Tehran has been in turmoil since last Monday (16 Azar). Some faculties have not had any classes for more than a week now. Monday and Tuesday, bodybuilders claiming to be basijis had surrounded some of the faculties for a “religious celebration” (anyone with a Shia upbringing knows that the celebrations are ALWAYS held before an event, and not after. And eid was on Sunday). They were using the card shown above [via AyandehNews].

Students have been arrested, some parts of the open space in the school have been set on fire, IRIB has been continously airing the image of Ayatollah Khomeini being ripped and it is still not clear if it was even the students who ripped it (I strongly doubt it) … The seminaries in major cities were on strike “protesting” the incident, and students at U of T are refusing to go to class for reasons that are unclear. They claim they will get the university president – who is charged with opening the university doors to militias on the night of June 15th, when the dorms were raided – to resign. But not going to class fits in so nicely with the narrative the government is trying to create. The kids have to be the grownups here, and for now, there simply aren’t any grownups at all.

Mousavi’s website has warned of “suspicious/chaotic events that may be awaiting the next few days.”