15 student leaders arrested in Tehran: Via Radio Zamaneh in English .

Fifteen members of central council of the student organization Unity Consolidation Bureau have been arrested by security forces today in Tehran. The detainees have been taken to an unknown location and so far no announcements concerning their charges have been released.

Prior to the opening of the fall university term, the Revolutionary Guards and security forces as well as the Supreme Leader himself had warned students to stay away from protests. The establishment has described student protests and their demands for reform as a tool of foreign conspiracies to undermine the government. The teaching of humanities has been portrayed as a threat to the rule of Velayat-e Faqih represented by Ayatollah Khamenei, a pretext which many feel will result in the dismissing of progressive faculty members.

Despite warnings, Tehran and Sharif Universities have been sites of several protests in the past weeks. Students have protested the presence of the Minister of Science at their opening ceremonies. Kamran Danshejou, the current Science minister, acted as the head of election headquarters in the June presidential elections. Hundreds of students participated in last week’s protests revealing the persistence of election protests.

Unity Consolidation student organization in a recent statement announced that protesters should refrain from any violence since “authorities” intend to “divert the protest movement” by forcing them into physical confrontation.

In the past 100 days, numerous university students who had protested to the outcome of the elections have been arrested. In the first days of the protests following the June presidential election, a group of plainclothes officials attacked Tehran University dormitory beating and injuring many students.

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