The Coordination Council of Iranian Teachers’ Unions: Condemning the Massacre, Bloody Repression, and Organized Crimes Against the Protesting People

 After decades of enduring poverty, discrimination, repression, and the systemic denial of fundamental human rights, the people of Iran have risen to reclaim their right to life, freedom, and human dignity.

The government’s response has once again been bullets, mass arrests, torture, and killings—an approach that has laid bare the true nature of the ruling political system more starkly than ever before.

What has unfolded in Iran over recent days and weeks is neither a security confrontation, nor the restoration of public order, nor the control of unrest. It is a bloody, organized, and targeted campaign of repression against unarmed citizens. The repeated and baseless narratives of “foreign enemies” and “infiltrators” no longer deceive the Iranian people or the global conscience. These worn-out claims have long lost their credibility and serve only to evade responsibility for grave crimes.

In one of the bloodiest periods of Iran’s contemporary history, thousands of women, men, children, and adolescents have been subjected to unjustifiable violence—violence that cannot be defended even within the framework of the regime’s own laws. The killing of children and adolescents, mass arrests, enforced disappearances, and inhumane conditions in detention centers are unmistakable signs of the political and moral bankruptcy of the ruling authorities.

Iranian educators, as a conscious and responsible segment of civil society, have themselves been direct targets of this repression. The arrest, intimidation, dismissal, and even killing of more than ten teachers, along with dozens of innocent students during popular protests, demonstrate that the regime views education, awareness, and critical thinking as existential threats to its survival.

The Coordination Council of Iranian Teachers’ Unions, while expressing its deepest condolences and solidarity with the families of Javid Naman and all bereaved families across Iran, unequivocally declares:

We stand alongside the protesting people and consider ourselves an inseparable part of society’s struggle for freedom, social justice, democracy, and respect for human rights. Silence in the face of such widespread violence is a betrayal of our historical, professional, and civic responsibility.

Accordingly, the Coordination Council declares:

1. The government bears direct responsibility for the killings and brutal repression of the people and must be held accountable for these crimes before the Iranian public and independent international institutions, rather than resorting to lies, denial, and blame-shifting.

2. All detainees—especially students, teachers, union members, and civil activists—must be released immediately and unconditionally.

3. The militarization of schools, universities, and educational institutions must end at once. Educational spaces are not battlefields.

4. We call upon the conscience of the global community to stand in solidarity with the people of Iran and to refuse silence in the face of this state violence and brutality.

History has shown that truth ultimately prevails. Those who today order repression will be consigned to the dustbin of history and will inevitably be held accountable.

What matters is where we stand in history: on the side of truth, justice, and human dignity—or on the side of tyranny and oppression.

Coordination Council of Iranian Teachers’ Union

13 Bahman 1404/Feb 2, 2026