Communiqué No. 16
At 10:30 this morning the representatives of the Office for Strengthening Unity (which supports president Khatami) were supposed to hold a meeting at the Martyr Beheshti University to discuss the students’ situation. According to the latest reports from Tehran this meeting has been cancelled. There were three reasons for this:
First, the University had earlier been completely surrounded by the Ansar-e Hezbollah and the Pasdaran. They had been authorised to shoot and even kill those attending the meeting.
Second, over half the students who were to attend had been arrested at the bus terminal.
Third, Khatami supporters like Abdollah Nouri and Ebrahim Asgharzadeh urged the students to cancel the meeting. This was because in their opinion it was likely that the Pasdaran could have killed the students.
This meeting has therefore been postponed until the start of the academic year in September.
Iranian Revolutionary Socialists’ League
23 July 1999
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