A France 24 correspondent in Iran said that the size of the participants in the student demonstrations in Tehran on Saturday surprised the Iranian authorities. The students chanted slogans against the leadership of the Islamic Republic. Protests were organized in a number of universities in the capital, after widespread demonstrations that were violently suppressed by the authorities in January.
Published on: 02/22/2026 - 14:07 Last updated: 02/23/2026 - 12:49
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Protests were held in a number of universities in the Iranian capital, Tehran, on Saturday, as students chanted slogans against the leadership of the Islamic Republic, in a renewal of protests after the January demonstrations.
For the first time since the wave of demonstrations subsided, Iranians returned this week to chanting “Death” slogans to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in several cities, during ceremonies for the forty victims who fell at the height of the protests on January 8 and 9.
Video clips circulated on social media, and identified by the French news agency as being at Sharif University of Technology, a prestigious engineering university in Tehran, showed clashes taking place between crowds of demonstrators.
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Iranian Fars News Agency reported that what was supposed to be a “peaceful, silent sit-in” by students to commemorate the victims was disrupted by people who chanted slogans including “Death to the dictator,” in reference to Khamenei.
A video clip published by Fars showed a group chanting slogans waving Iranian flags in the face of a crowd wearing masks. Both teams carried what appeared to be pictures of dead people.
France 24 / AFP
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