9:00 a.m. >> Crowds have begun to gather in these routes. So far though there is massive military and security guards, plain clothes presence in the streets throughout Tehran and other cities throughout Iran, none of the roads have been closed. According to , which Planet Iran will be monitoring, though there is heavy traffic in the areas that is marked in red, nothing has been blocked. The green areas the traffic is running smoothly, the orange locations marked in orange, traffic is heavy but it is moving. The areas that will be in black will be those that will be eventually blocked.

* * Sharif University has been completely surrounded by the security forces and the presence of the students has struck total fear in the heart of the regime and though the regime’s agents are trying to contain any movement that would emanate from various university campuses and the students, the students have declared that they will not be contained. Chants can be heard:

• Daneshjoo meemeerad, zellat nehmeepazeerad = Students would rather die and never put up with suffering

• Dictator’eh beechareh, baazi edaameh daareh = Pathetic dictator, the game goes on
• Hehmaayat, hehmaayat, Irani’yeh baa-ghayrat =  Support, support, brave Iranians

9:35 a.m. >> One hundred and twenty people who were traveling to Thailand for a conference were arrested.

* * Also arrested was Iranian artist and activist, was prohibited from leaving Iran to return to Germany where she lives; Parastou is the daughter of Iranian opposition leaders, Darioush and Parvaneh Forouhar who were assassinated by the Iranian regime in their home on November 22nd, 1998. Parastou was in Iran, as per her annual trip to Iran to hold the memorial for her parents. The assassination of her parents was another of a long line of assassinations of Iranian opposition leaders and activists which came to be known as the chain murders. Airport’s security officers announced that Parastou was to present herself at the Ministry of Intelligence and Security to reclaim her passport.

* * * Tehran University is not completely surrounded

Below : Photo of the early hours of the morning, front gate of Tehran University. The banner sends greetings to Iranians for the Islamic , totally disregarding and denying the student day commemoration. The banner is long and blocks any view of the inside of the university from the street.

*  *  * From 3 p.m. protestors will gather for marches that will

1. Azadi Square, Enghelab Square by Tehran University
2. Sattar Khan Avenue , Nosrat Avenue, Karim Khan Zand Ave. toward Tehran University
3. Haft Tir Square & Kargar Avenue toward Tehran University
4. North Kargar Avenue by Tehran University
5. Amir Kabir University at Vali Asr Square toward Tehran University
6. Ferdowsi Square & Enghelab Avenue toward Tehran University

10:20 a.m. >> Students have announced that the protests that begin today will go on day after day in the days and weeks to come and that any blockage by the  regime’s forces today will not deter them and Iranians in general from moving against the regime.

*  * Reuters writes .

*  *  * According to Human Rights & Democracy Activists in Iran Organization, beginning midnight the throngs of security forces were moved in place; Enghelab Square which is where Tehran University is located is surrounded by security forces who are both on foot and riding various security vehicles (motorcycles, paddy wagons, sedans).

A large number of people have begun gathering at Enghelab Square but they are not allowed to stand; the security forces forcibly disburse them. At first there were three buses that had been also parked just behind of the banner (above photo), and directly blocking off the main gate of the university. But the buses were moved to an adjacent street. The buses act as a mobile detention center.

Plain clothes security in black suits are everywhere.

More than 150 members of the special forces also have been placed in front of the gates of Sharif University, controlling the passage of people on Azadi Avenue. Also right by Azadi Avenue, the Veterinary school located on Gharib Street is filled with guards (photo below).

11: 40 a.m. >> In Enghelab Square severe clashes have begun between a large number of civilians and protestors and security guards. Though the people are being savagely beaten, they have surrounded the security forces.

*  * Old women are approaching the security guards blocking them, some politely calling on them to desist, others cursing them for attacking people. They are standing between the guards and the people.

12 noon >> Inside Tehran University have been attacked and savagely beaten by the security forces.

* * Students have gathered in front of the University mosque at the Polytechnic; guards are stacking sandbags barricading the campus.

*  * * Amir Kabir university sidewalks are filled with people and are beating people.

*   * * * Along Enghelab Avenue, people have gathered at the Tehran’s City Theater area and have also been attacked and savagely beaten.

*  *  * * *  Shops around Enghelab Square, from Jamalzadeh to Abu-Reyhan Avenue, have now been closed by the regime security forces.

*  *  * * * * Amir Kabir University students announced that civilians should join students at six universities at 3 p.m. Tehran time.

1. Tehran University

2. Sharif University
3. Amir Kabir Polytechnic and Industrial University
4. Pounak Free University for Research Sciences
5. Alaameh University for Social Sciences
6. Khajeh Nassiruddin Toussi University for Electrical Engineering

*  *  * * * * * Kayhan newspaper the mouthpiece media outlet closest to the Supreme Leader has in an editorial written by Hossein Shariamadari, threatened to massacre Iranians.

More chants, all of which rhyme in Persian:

• Khamenei behdoon’eh, beh zoodi sar nehgoon’eh = Khamenei should know, he’ll soon be overthrown
• Ghazeh va Lobnaan kaman, raftan soragh’eh Yaman = Lebanon and Gaza isn’t enough they’re now in Yemen
• Mousavi bahaaneh’ast, koll’eh regime neshaneh’ast = Mousavi is just an excuse the entire regime is targeted
• Dar Iran jang’eh, khaamooshi nang’eh = There’s a war going on Iran, staying silent is shameful
• Shoaar’eh mellat’eh maa, deen az siyasat joda = The slogan of our people, separation of religion from government
• Daneshjoo beedaar’eh, az dictator beezaar’eh = Students are aware, they hate the dictator

12:30 p.m. >> Masses of people have poured into Vali Asr Avenue everywhere in Tehran. People march and sing a Persian translation of When Johnny Comes Marching Home!

Shiraz: Alam Square at Mollah Sadra Avenue, people have gathered in large masses and have joined a very united student front.

reports : Iran News Agency reports that Shiraz University is under firm surveillance and students I.D. card are being checked through computer systems [?] so that no stranger can enter. Since the campus is located on a hill, there are ways around the main entrance and students are pouring into the campus to protest in anniversary of 16 Azar.

Leaders of the residents of southwestern Iran most of whom live in and around the Pars Province, have issued a warning to the regime that members of the tribe have prepared themselves to enter Shiraz and confront the regime’s guards.

Below: Protestors march in Shiraz, sound of gunfire rings out

Esfahan: Masses have gathered on Chahar-Bagh Avenue though the streets in that city are also filled with special forces. People have gathered in front of the University’s school of comparative literature and chant: “Death to the Dictator”. Two students were arrested and taken away.

Najaf-Abad University of Esfahan, severe clashes have erupted.

Kermanshah: The sound of Allah o Akbar fill the streets. Citizens of Kermanshah have vowed to come out on the following days to come, December 8, 9, 10 and so on. Professors from the University have joined the ranks of the students and canceled classes.

The Raazi Technical university is one of the centers of the clashes in that city where civilians have joined students. The regime’s officials have been increased from twenty to two hundred.

Tabriz: from According to Iran Khabar Agency, on Sunday 15 Azar, the presence of military forces were bold in Tabriz. Tabriz University withstood a siege and the traffic was led away from the campus. There is a staged curfew on the streets of Tabriz to scare the protesters and persuade them not to take part in 16 Azar protest.

Tehran: Green balloons fill the skies of Sharif University

Below: Videos of Sharif University students protesting

Directly below: Regime agents video tape students inside Iran in order to do facial recognition for their possible arrests. The students call them cowards and filthy agents who are for sale; then the students chant: “Don’t be afraid, don’t be afraid, we are all together”.

1 p.m. >> Tehran University clashes have reached a peek and people in the surrounding areas are joining in and surrounding the universities. Tear gas is being tossed and guards are shooting into the air. Various regime forces have been tearing off branches from trees and flogging people.

*  * Haft’eh Tir Square people have attacked the regime’s special forces while being attacked right back.

1:25 p.m. >> Fowzieh Square which was not on the planned route of protests is now filled with protestors.

Below: Massive Tehran University protests, before noon

Below: Basijji militia on red motorcycles riding toward Tehran University to assist on suppression of protestors on that campus

Below: Amir Kabir Polytechnic University

• In the two videos directly below, students from other universities join the students inside Amir Kabir and as they tear the gate off of the hinges, the students inside chant: beeyaa too, beeyaa too = Come on in, come on in” - – two videos, each  from one side of the gates, inside the university and outside

Below: Students of Amir Kabir chant: “Death to the Taliban, from Kabul to Tehran”

- More videos at

Below: Tehran protestors marching

3 p.m >> An announcement has gone out asking people to increase “green traffic” to confront security forces and provide coverage and protection to all those in and around the universities, starting 4 p.m. when everyone is asked to leave their houses once again. The planned universities are:

1. Tehran University: Enghelab Ave., intersection of 16th of Azar and Quds Streets, outside the university grounds
2. Sharif University: Azadi Ave., outside the university grounds
3. Polytechnic University: Vali Asr Ave.
4. Science and Reasearch Academy: Enghelab Ave., between Hafez Ave. and Ostad Nejat Elahi Street
5. Teachers Training College: Shahid Moftah Ave.
6. Modarress Training College: Intersection of Jalal Aal Ahamad and Shahid Chamran Avenues
7. Shahed University: Opening of the Tehran-Qom Freeway

Below are the universities outside the city center after 3 p.m.

1. Pounak Free University: Pounak Circle, end of Ashrafi Esfahani Street
2. Alaameh Tabatabai University: West Resaalat Freeway
3. Khajeh Nassiruddin Toussi: Shariati Ave., under the Seyyed Khandan Bridge and also just above Vanak Square
4. Water and Industry University of Shahid Abbasspour: Forth Square of Tehran Pars area of Tehran, Vafadar Blvd., Shahid Abbasspour Blvd.
5. Shaheed Beheshti University: Chamran Highway, Yaman Ave., Evin Circle
6. Al Zahra University: Vanak Square
7. Payam’eh Nour University: Beginning of Lashkarak Road, Nakhl Street
8. Shahed University: Opening of Tehran-Qom Freeway
9. University of Science and Industry: Resaalat Square, Hengaam Ave.
10. University of Disciplinary Sciences: West Hammat Autobahn

Below: Mash’had Free University, 16h of Azar (December 7th)

Below: Mash’had’s Khayyam University

3:20 p.m. >> On Sommayeh Avenue the number of people vs. the Basiji militia and special forces was so great that the Basiji and special forces left their cars and fled!

*  * Throughout the day, there has been no sign of Mousavi, Khatami or Karubi. Rafsanjani was reported stating: “If people do not want us, we must go.”

*  * * Plans are under way for people to block all the road leading to all the universities and create the ‘green traffic jam’ so that the regime cannot get in or out of the above mentioned university areas.

*  * * * Widespread arrests begin.

*  * * * * Anger toward Obama continues; disbelief and apprehension at the U.S. administration for dialogue with the regime.

*  *  *  *  * * Protestors all have cigarettes in their hands and blow cigarette smoke in each others eyes as a cigarette smoke eases and alleviates the effect of teargas on the eyes.

4 p.m. >>

Below: Street fighting in Tehran

Below: Student being arrested and dragged away by black clad plain clothes members of the Basij militia

Below: Elm va San’at (Science and Industry) University in Tehran

Below: An elderly woman who has been attacked by the regime’s special forces is helped by fellow protestors

Below: Video from Kerman University

4:30 p.m. >> Large groups have marched uptown Tehran and are beginning to surround the regime Television and Radio, sound and vision of the Islamic Republic. People carrying the tri-colored flag of Iran that does not have the black “Allah” emblem of the Islamic regime.

*  * Large number of arrests are now being reported but it is not deterring people for coming out and joining the crowd.

*  * * Security forces are said to be getting tired; they were put in position at midnight and they too have been on their feet for the duration and longer even. Reportedly 60% of the guards refuse to attack the people; they are very respectful and kind but 40% viciously beat people. Major infighting has now also begun within the ranks of the security forces even.

Below: Tehran protestors chant: “Death to Khamenei”

*  *  * * Protestors vow to continue their protests and remain on the streets during by day and chant from rooftops by night.

Hamadan: According to Amir Kabir University newsletter during the peaceful morning gathering of students at the Hamadan’s Bu Ali University were attacked by plain clothes guards. At first they used loud P.A. systems to drown out the sound of their chanting against the regime. The plain clothes guards then poured into the school of Sciences and attacked every student on their path. Several students were thrown out of their dorm room windows by what became clear later as members of the Ansar Hezbollah. They attacked others with pepper spray and teargas. The special forces that were then stationed outside the university campus arrested several students whose locations are still unknown.

Below: A video of Faa’ezeh Rafsanjani, Ayatollah Rafsanjani’s youngest daughter who has joined the crowd of students at the Free University of Science and Research. The students are chanting: “Faa’ezeh thank you!”

Below: Students at Karaj University, suburb of Tehran

Below: Students at the University of Ilam, chanting: Daneshjoo meemeerad, zellat nehmeepazeerad = Students would rather die and never put up with suffering

Below: Girls High School Students chant : “Honorable teacher, support, support”, “I will kill, I will kill, he who kills my brother”, “political prisoners must be freed”…(all of it rhymes in Persian)

Below: Night protest in Ferdowsi Square at the foot of the Ferdowsi Statue, the 12th century Iranian poet (Iran’s Homer who celebrated the Persian identity in his book of Shahnameh/The Book of King of Kings) singing, Ay Iran, which is a banned patriotic anthem.

Below: Jamalzadeh Avenue intersection of Forsat’eh Shirzai Avenue

Below: In Tehran protestors tear down posters of the Supreme Leader Khamenei

Hormozgan: Below: Students gathered at the auditorium of the University of Hormozgan singing the beloved student anthem “Yar’eh Dabestani/Old Elementary School Pal”

Below: Tehran, nighttime street protests

Zanjan: reports >>  Zanjan university students on the commemoration of 16 Azar Studetns Day, in front of Alghadir University, protested against the prohibition of 16 Azar gatherings and a Basij event.

According to the students’ unit of Human Rights Activists in Iran, Zanjan university authorities, by announcing independent gatherings of 16 Azar to be illegal and by confiscating the statement of the Islamic association as well as Toloo Andishe newsletter at the print laboratory in Zanjan, prevented the students to carry out their programs. The Basij however managed to obtain proper authorization and perform their event on 16 Azar without problems.

Students protested with respect to the measures taken by the university authorities, by gathering for hours in front of Alghadir hall and not withstanding the fact that the hall was filled with already planned persons brought from outside, they managed to prevent the program to be carried out.

Protesting students chanted slogans against the results of the election and demanded the release of their arrested class mates. (4 photos below)

Tehran : Regime’s special forces at Khajeh Nassiruddin Toussi University prohibited students from leaving the campus. The regime’s special forces (below photo) chased students who were headed toward Enghelab Avenue. Students were escaping and hiding at their neighbor’s houses, Basijis were storming houses in order to catch and arrest them however people protected the students who had taken refuge and stopped the guards from arresting them.

Kurdistan: Student’s day commemoration ceremonies were held in all universities throughout Kurdestan.

At  the University of Kurdestan approximately 700 students and civilians gathered and sang anti-regime  songs and chanted slogans. At Payaam’eh Nour University, 400 people gathered and the same at Azad University of Sanandadj.

Students carried signs and banners declaring their solidarity with students around the country.

Below: In Tehran sounds of gunfire rings out in the background while Basijis ride around on red motorcycles.

Qazvin: University of Qazvin students and supporters peacefully march; the banner reads: “The University is Alive”

Below: A truck driver with a cargo of bricks dumps the bricks on the street for people to use to protest themselves against the attacking Basijis and special forces

Below: Hamadan University students protesting

Below: Hamadan’s Bu-Ali University students protesting while a member of the Basij pushes a student off the mezzanine balcony