STORY – High schools, like universities, have established themselves as high places of protest.
«We don’t want child-killing power!At the Sadeghieh metro station, in the heart of Tehran, the slogan claps above heads and Ehlam, 17, does not tremble, does not weaken. Hair in the wind in the middle of the small spontaneous gathering, the teenager opens her two palms like a book, blackened with some of the names of the 60 minors – out of a total of at least 450 victims – killed by the security forces in near three months of uprising. Tomorrow it will be her. Or his brother. Or her best friend. “Every time I go out to protest, I know it might be the last“Launches the young high school student, describing the scene. She tells us aboutsomewhere» via a Skype connection that she will delete right after. The fear is deep, buried inside. But it is an engine that drives it forward. “Too late to turn back. The damage is done!“, she continues, referring to Mahsa Amini, 22, her arrest on September 13 by the morality police, then her…