Domestic Political or Civil Groups

Independent labour and teachers unions such as The Coordinating Council of Iranian Teachers’ trade Associations, Teachers’ unions of Tehran, Khuzestan, Bushehr, Fars, Kurdistan, Eslamabad-e-Gharb, and a number of working and retired teachers from Kurdistan, as well as The Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company (SWTSBC), The Syndicate of Workers of Haft Tappeh Cane Sugar Company, The Free Union of Iranian Workers (FUIW), The Iranian Writers Association, and Union of Scientific Societies of Social Sciences of the country condemned the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini by publishing separate statements.
Consultative Assembly of Yarasan Civil Activists, Iranian Retired Council, National Union of Iranian Retired, Tehran Independent Retired Group, House of Cinema and Reform Front also issued separate statements. They all condemned the incident, calling for the disbandment of the morality police and the trial of the commanders and perpetrators of Mahsa Amini’s death.
Furthermore, the Islamic associations of students of Tehran University and Tehran Medical Sciences issued a statement protesting the performance of university security staff in suppressing students. And a group of gender equality and LGBTQI+ activists in Iran reacted to the recent events in Iran by publishing a statement.
As a symbolic act, a weekly magazine in Kermanshah called Sedaye Azadi (Voice of Freedom) also printed its front page in white in protest against what happened to Mahsa Amini.
In the meantime, startups such as Digikala, Snapp!, Flightio, Divar and TAPSI publicly announced their sympathy for the recent events by releasing separate messages.
On the other hand, on Monday, September 26, the Dentistry students at Tabriz University went on strike in protest against the widespread arrest of students. A group of students from “Shaheed Chamran” University in Ahvaz, Bu-Ali Sina University in Hamedan, Sooreh University in Tehran, University of Arts and Pars Architecture in Tehran, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Allameh Tabataba’i University in Tehran, Tehran National University, Kharazmi University in Tehran, Tabriz National University, the Amirkabir University of Technology in Tehran, University of Science and Culture in Tehran, “Shahid Beheshti” University in Tehran, Tarbiat Modares University in Tehran, Qazvin International University, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Gilan University, Alzahra University in Tehran and the University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences in Tehran by publishing statements protesting the suppression of protests and arresting students and refused to attend classes.
On the same day, the organizing council of oil contract workers’ protests issued a statement in protest against “the killing of people and the repression and harassment of women because of the hijab and the death of Mahsa Amini at the hands of Morality Police.” The organization warned the government and stated that “protesting is the inalienable right of us workers and we are the people, and we are protesting against the oppression and repression that has been inflicted on us for more than forty years. We are no longer willing to continue tolerating this slavery and injustice.”
In addition, a group of students from different universities, including Ardabil University of Medical Sciences, Azad University (South Tehran Branch), Isfahan University, The University of Kurdistan, Faculty of Foreign Language and Literature at the University of Tehran, and a number of graduates of Tehran University of Arts supported nationwide protests in Iran by issuing separate statements.
A group of professors at the Ferdowsi University of Mashhad also issued a statement calling for an end to any violence. Similarly, 600 professors of Iran’s universities and research institutes, in a statement supporting the student protests, demanded the cancellation of “all anti-civil rights decrees against the students” and the release of “all the people who were arrested during the recent protests.” 73 professors of Babol Noshirvani University of Technology (NIT), also, in a letter to the president of this university, demanded to stop issuing disciplinary orders to students. A group of Mazandaran University professors supported the nationwide protests in Iran by publishing a statement, too.
Moreover, in a letter to the president of their university, 2300 graduates of the Amirkabir University of Technology in Tehran announced their support for the protesting students and condemned the measures that have caused “the creation of a security atmosphere” in this university.
In addition, by publishing a statement, the Scientific Association of Political Sciences of Tabriz University announced that it will refrain from conducting any scientific activities and hold any educational classes until further notice. The association highlighted that such activities would give students hope that science is alive in this system and make them believe the lie and untruth.
More than 300 Christian-Iranian citizens inside the country also published a statement and announced their solidarity with the nationwide protests, condemning and announcing the suppression of protesting people by the Islamic Republic.
In response to the filtering and restrictions imposed on the Internet in Iran in the last few days, the Tehran E-Commerce Association has issued a statement criticizing these conditions and announced: “The interruption of access to Instagram in Iran has negatively affected more than 400,000 businesses, and the livelihood of more than one million people has faced serious problems.
Furthermore, the game and entertainment headquarters of Qom seminary, a number of doctors, dentists and pharmacists of Saqez city and 330 media activists reacted to the recent events in separate statements.
And more than 620 specialist doctors and specialists in fields related to pediatrics have signed a joint letter calling for an end to the Islamic Republic’s violence against children and warned them regarding the consequences of the “incorrect behavior” with the country’s children and adolescents.