Students at Tehran’s Allameh Tabataba’i University, a large public university specializing in the social sciences, began protesting on Monday against the compulsory hijab, university fees and a lack of welfare services for students, according to footage of the protest.
The students were recorded chanting “Death to tyranny, hijab and the morality police” and “The regime’s slogan is dialogue, but their guns are aimed at us” outside the university’s mosque.
Student protests have broken out at Allameh Tabataba’i University in Tehran.
They are protesting everything from rising costs and terrible dorm conditions to unemployment and mandatory hijab, while confronting Basij and security forces on campus.
pic.twitter.com/VEBlfCAEiQ— Zineb Riboua (@zriboua) September 28, 2026
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Basij paramilitary gathered the protesting students under the guise of listening to their complaints, but then threatened to put them in a “goni” (sack), according to the student-run independent media platform Amirkabir.
The Basij’s comment was largely interpreted as a threat of violence, according to Iranian student platforms. In January, the regime’s security forces carried out a devastating crackdown on protesters demonstrating against the country’s economic conditions and the regime, killing large numbers of protesters. Human rights groups have estimated that more than 30,000 protesters were killed.
The students reportedly raised concerns over increased tuition fees for night programs and for students who have exceeded the standard period of study, the provision of food in dormitories and food services, and compulsory hijab.
دانشجویان دانشگاه علامه؛ اعتراض به هزینهها و حجاب اجباری
دانشجویان دانشگاه علامه طباطبایی تهران روز ۲۸ سپتامبر در اعتراض به افزایش شهریه، مشکلات رفاهی و حجاب اجباری تجمع کردند.
معترضان همچنین خواستار پاسخگویی مسئولان دانشگاه شدند. pic.twitter.com/FmCWAoOR4i— DW فارسی (@dw_persian) September 28, 2026
Students were banned from entering female-only university in Tehran
Frustrations are also simmering at Tehran’s female-only Alzahra University after 165 students were barred from entering campus, despite disciplinary proceedings against many of them not yet being completed. Some of the students reported that they had been turned away after arriving at campus, having received no prior written message communicating the ban.
Students at Lorestan University and Razi University have also launched a boycott of their university’s cafeteria over the increased price and declining quality of food, according to Amirkabir.
اعتصاب غذای دانشجویان دانشگاه رازی کرمانشاه
بر اساس گزارش رسیده به #خبرنامه_امیرکبیر شماری از دانشجویان دانشگاه رازی کرمانشاه، روز شنبه ۴ مرداد ۱۴۰۵ در اعتراض به کیفیت پایین و وضعیت نامناسب بهداشتی غذای این دانشگاه، دست به اعتصاب غذا زده و از خوردن آن خودداری کردند.
گزارشهایی… pic.twitter.com/LFY1W08RXp
— Amirkabir NewsLetter خبرنامهٔ امیرکبیر (@autnews_org) September 26, 2026
The president of Lorestan University, Mehrdad Dadistani, told IRNA that the rising cost of food was due to the country’s inflation rate, but promised that meetings were being held with the relevant contractors on the food’s quality.
