Iran Deploys 51,000 Security Personnel in Tehran as Student Protests Defy Hijab Rules
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Updated · Fox News · Sep 29
Iran Deploys 51,000 Security Personnel in Tehran as Student Protests Defy Hijab Rules
3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Sep 29
Summary
Motorcycle patrols, checkpoints and security units have spread across Tehran and other Iranian cities as authorities brace for unrest tied to student protests over compulsory hijab, tuition costs and political repression.
Videos from Allameh Tabataba’i University showed students returning to the streets this week, with chants against the morality police after demonstrations that began over dormitory, food and tuition costs widened into broader anti-regime slogans.
Sources cited Basij, IRGC and police deployments at major squares, phone searches for “anti-regime” material, canceled leave and plainclothes surveillance in smaller cities; one opposition-linked report said 51,000 personnel were deployed across Greater Tehran.
The crackdown comes after a reported new university hijab directive and amid indirect U.S.-Iran contacts over their seven-month conflict, feeding speculation that campus protests could broaden into another national unrest wave.