Ayatollah Jannati: Today’s students are tomorrow’s officials
“The [university] Student’s Day is an auspicious and blessed day”, Ayatollah Jannati said on Wednesday addressing the Council’s regular weekly meeting.
He added that the generation of our students has recorded an excellent performance in the revolutionary era, calling on officials to help address their problems and give priority to pupils from low income families.
“Today’s students are tomorrow’s leaders. We need to equip them for the future”, Ayatollah Jannati said.
The 16th of Azar of the year 1332 [December 7, 1953] - when three students were murdered in a bloody event - happened almost four months after the 28th of Mordad. That is to say, after the coup d’état of the 28th of Mordad and after that intense suppression of all forces, this led to an explosion of the students in the University of Tehran.
It was because Nixon, who was the vice-president of America at the time, had come to Iran. Therefore, these students held a strike and demonstration in the campus of the university as a protest to America and Nixon who were the agents of the coup d’état of the 28th of Mordad.
Of course, they were suppressed and three of them were killed. So, every year, the 16th of Azar is known for such characteristics.