{"id":309560,"date":"2026-02-25T13:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T13:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/309560\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T13:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T13:58:08","slug":"verified-video-shows-student-protests-in-iran-spreading-to-more-universities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/309560\/","title":{"rendered":"Verified video shows student protests in Iran spreading to more universities"},"content":{"rendered":"

Verified footage shows more universities joining anti-government protestspublished at 10:55 GMT<\/p>\n

10:55 GMT<\/p>\n

Sarah Jalali, Ghoncheh Habibiazad and Shayan Sardarizadeh
BBC Monitoring, BBC Persian and BBC Verify<\/p>\n

Verified video shows student-led protests in Iran have taken place at least 13 universities since Saturday, after footage emerged yesterday of demonstrations at several new major institutions.<\/p>\n

Among them is Sajjad University of Technology in Mashhad, Iran\u2019s second-largest city. One video shows a group of students at the university’s main courtyard chanting against the paramilitary volunteer Basij force, part of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) branch of Iran\u2019s military, whose members have been clashing with student protesters this week.<\/p>\n

Footage filmed at the Shandiz Institute of Higher Education, also in Mashhad, shows students holding a gathering near the university’s main building. <\/p>\n

\"ProtestersImage source, Telegram\/EEAUTImage caption, <\/p>\n

Pro and anti-government students held rallies at Tehran\u2019s Khajeh Nasir University on Tuesday<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve also confirmed several videos from Khajeh Nasir University in the capital Tehran. In one clip, pro and anti-government protesters can be seen in front of the school of mechanical engineering. <\/p>\n

Anti-government students are heard chanting \u201clong live the Shah\u201d, while pro-government students wave the flag of the Islamic Republic. <\/p>\n

Science minister Hossein Simaei-Sarraf said in a video published by Iranian media yesterday that he would not tolerate any instances of \u201crioting\u201d at universities. <\/p>\n

We will continue to monitor the latest from Iran today and verify new footage of the ongoing protests. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Verified footage shows more universities joining anti-government protestspublished at 10:55 GMT 10:55 GMT Sarah Jalali, Ghoncheh Habibiazad and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-309560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}