Students across Iran have issued powerful statements rejecting monarchist propaganda and false claims that they support Pahlavi. From Tehran and Sharif to Kharazmi and Beheshti, they have made it clear: they rose up against dictatorship — not to replace one with another. Universities remain a stronghold of the revolution, standing against both religious and hereditary rule.
Students across Iran reject monarchist propaganda and false claims of support for Pahlavi
Universities declare: “We rose against dictatorship — not to restore it”
Students at multiple universities across Iran have issued statements firmly rejecting coordinated online propaganda claiming that Iranian students support Reza Pahlavi or the restoration of monarchy.
Universities are a central stronghold of the freedom movement and revolution. During the January uprising, students played a visible role under the banner of Woman, Life, Freedom. Today they remain a key force in society’s justice-seeking struggle against the regime’s mass killings.
In recent days, engineered social media content has falsely portrayed students as backing monarchist leadership projects. In response, students from the following universities have publicly rejected these claims:
- Kharazmi University
- Shahid Beheshti University
- Islamic Azad University – Central Tehran Branch
- Sharif University of Technology
- University of Tehran
- Urmia University of Technology
- Bu-Ali Sina University (Hamedan)
- Soore University
- University of Gilan
Selected statements from universities
University of Tehran:
Students stated that the university has historically stood in opposition to repression, recalling the 16 Azar student uprising during the Shah’s rule. They described claims of support for hereditary power as a distortion of the student movement’s history and stressed that Iran’s universities have always stood against both religious and monarchical dictatorship.
Sharif University of Technology:
Students wrote that calls for “unity” under monarchist leadership amount to silencing other voices and attempting to appropriate a people’s revolution in the name of one individual. They declared that Sharif University “will not be deceived by the mirage of past dictatorship.”
Kharazmi University:
“We did not rise up against the Supreme Leader to replace him with a Crown Prince. The era of idol-making and personality worship is over.”
University of Gilan:
Students condemned all forms of fascistic tendencies and rejected politics that divide society into “loyal” and “traitor.”
Islamic Azad University – Central Tehran:
“We are citizens, not subjects — neither subjects of the Supreme Leader nor subjects of a Shah.”
Bu-Ali Sina University (Hamedan):
Students rejected replacing religious dictatorship with individualist dictatorship, stating they came to the streets “for the people, not to restore a throne.”
Shahid Beheshti University:
Students warned against attempts to appropriate the student movement for specific political projects and described such efforts as a diversion from a struggle that must lead to freedom.
Universities across Iran continue to position themselves as centres of freedom-seeking struggle, rejecting both the Islamic Republic and any attempt to repackage authoritarian rule under a different name.
Worker-communist Party of Iran
11 February 2026
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