From the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jakar

Armstrong and Joe Gettie, Armstrong and Gettie Show.

Students in their thousands are staging protests on campuses and on the streets across the

country. What started with demands for justice and accountability for the death of Masa Amini

has quickly morphed into more daring widespread calls for regime change for bringing down

the repressive Islamic Republic. Anger that has been building for years captured in video

like this one. Protasters into Iran tearing down and destroying the Islamic Republic street

sign.

You know, I just keep going back in my mind to the vendor in Tunisia that set off the

great Arab Spring and so many regimes that nobody thought could ever fall fell with

those protests is now the time for Iran or are they about to crack down as this report

suggests.

A snapshot of a night of horror at one of Iran's most prestigious universities, chaos, panic

and fear as students. Some of Iran's best and brightest ran through the Sharif University

car park into Iran chased by security forces on foot and on motorbikes.

Those who couldn't escape the violent crackdown hooded and taken away.

Yeah, some of the best and brightest young people in the entire country caught hoods put

over their heads. They're put in a truck and they'll never be seen again.

Yeah, and are they'll endure terrible, terrible, you know, beatings, tortures, whatever

until they're cout in a submission. And then as you've mentioned before, in a lot of

cases, they just take pictures of everybody at the protests and then you're asleep one

night and there's the knock on the door and off you go. So they don't need to crack down

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