FOX News: Iranian university students criticize country in meeting with supreme leader, report says
Iranian university students offered harsh criticism of the country’s direction in a frank conversation with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, local media reported Tuesday.
One student went as far as offering a list of problems confronting Iran and asked Khamenei directly how he would respond to them. Other students showed concerns on the Trump administration’s pullout from the nuclear deal with Tehran and the country’s battered economy.
Sahar Mehrabi read a speech in which she cited “numerous crises” facing the country.
She listed Iran’s intensified systematic inequality in social classes, the decline of public trust and the increase in environmental crisis and "shantytowns" as well as high unemployment, challenges faced by minority groups and hard-liners’ influence in the country’s judiciary and security system.
“What answer does Your Excellency have in response to questions, criticisms and protests?” Mehrabi asked.
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Update: Iranian university students reportedly offer harsh criticism in meeting with supreme leader (Toronto Star/AP)
WNU Editor: You know that there is growing unrest in the country when the Iranian Supreme leader must stage a "townhall meeting" with students to listen to their complaints on the current state of Iran. The official coverage is here .... Iran's Supreme Leader Khamenei Distances Himself From Judiciary and State TV As Criticism Escalates (Payvand/Radio Farda). At the same link, there are a number of pictures. I always find these images very revealing. And in this case you can see the men are in front (see above picture), and the women are sequestered way in the back.
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