{"id":337762,"date":"2025-10-01T20:22:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T19:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=337762"},"modified":"2025-10-01T20:22:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T19:22:30","slug":"protests-erupt-in-iranian-universities-prisons-and-provinces-over-regime-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-protests\/protests-erupt-in-iranian-universities-prisons-and-provinces-over-regime-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Protests Erupt in Iranian Universities, Prisons, and Provinces Over Regime Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kermanshah \u2013 Retirees from multiple sectors, including civil service, military, social security, healthcare, and telecommunications, hold a protest\u2014September 30, 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On the first day of October 2025, a firestorm of protest swept across Iran<\/a>, exposing the clerical regime’s profound systemic failures and unifying disparate segments of society in a powerful display of dissent. From university campuses ignited by deadly negligence to the militarized streets of Sistan and Baluchestan and the defiant cells of the regime\u2019s most notorious prisons, the Iranian people are launching a multi-front challenge to a corrupt and incompetent theocracy. These are not isolated incidents but interconnected expressions of a nation’s rejection of tyranny.<\/p>\n

Universities Erupt Against Incompetence and Repression<\/h2>\n

The nation’s universities have once again become epicenters of protest, channeling the anger of a generation robbed of its future by the regime\u2019s lethal incompetence. On Tuesday, September 30, students at Semnan University of Medical Sciences took to the streets to protest the tragic deaths of two female classmates in a bus crash. The incident, a direct result of the university\u2019s use of a dilapidated bus and a driver with a known poor record, was a tragedy students had repeatedly warned was inevitable. They called for the prosecution of university officials. The regime\u2019s contempt was personified by the university’s head, Ali Rashidipour, who arrogantly refused to attend a crisis meeting, stating the students’ “tone” was not to his liking.<\/p>\n

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September 30\u2014Tehran, Iran
Students of Khajeh Nasir University held a night rally in the dormitory courtyard to continue protesting their conditions and authorities lack of action. They chanted: \u201cThe university is our stronghold, expulsions have no effect.\u201d#IranProtests<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/5RqfAJGcxo<\/a><\/p>\n

— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) October 1, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n