Protestors gathered near the Sharif University of Technology in Tehran. Photo Credit: Wall Street Journal/Getty Images . University students have played a central role in the nationwide protests in Iran in the past month, which have been severely repressed by the Iranian government, leading to the deaths of 3,117 people according to the government, while the UN special rapporteur on Iran estimated that the actual death toll could be around 20,000. Unlike previous protests, t

On May 4, Iran's semi-official ISNA news agency reported that Iran’s judiciary was taking steps to carry out its death sentence against...