📋 Iran Society Brief

Iranian Students Continue Protests Against In-Person Exams Amidst Expulsions, While Women Persist in Defying Hijab Laws and Regime Intensifies Executions

June 24, 2026 · 🔴 Risk: High

⚖️ Two accounts of the same story

Where sources agree

Multiple sources, including opposition-affiliated media and human rights organizations, consistently report on widespread student protests against educational policies, expulsions of students, and the ongoing defiance of hijab laws by women. They also highlight the regime's intensified use of executions as a tool of repression.

Where sources differ

While there is a consensus on the existence of protests and repression, the provided search results do not offer a direct competing narrative from Iranian state media for today's specific events in society and culture. State-affiliated media would likely downplay dissent or justify crackdowns, but such reports for June 24, 2026, were not found in the search results.

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The Iranian regime continues to face significant internal dissent from students and women, responding with expulsions and intensified executions, indicating high social tension and severe repression.

📌 Key developments

Graduate and high school students in several Iranian cities, including Tehran, Ilam, Khorramabad, and Shahrekord, continued protests on June 22, 2026, against the regime's decision to hold final exams in person and a compressed academic calendar. University officials temporarily postponed exams by 20 days but did not revoke the in-person mandate.
Seven students from Tehran's Sharif University of Technology were expelled by the disciplinary committee on June 22, 2026, including female students Fatemeh Khakpour and Parnian Khodabakhshi. Khodabakhshi received a five-year ban from academic education, with these rulings following the January 2026 nationwide uprising.
Iranian women continue to defy mandatory hijab laws across the country despite significant risks of fines and imprisonment, as reported on June 23, 2026, reflecting ongoing resistance to government-imposed dress code restrictions.
The Iranian regime intensified executions, with at least 134 prisoners executed in the Iranian month of Khordad (May 22 – June 21, 2026), amid fears of an uprising.

💡 Why it matters

The ongoing student protests and expulsions indicate persistent internal dissent against regime policies, particularly in the education sector. The continued defiance of hijab laws by women underscores a deep-seated social resistance, while the intensified executions reflect the regime's severe measures to suppress any form of opposition, signaling a volatile internal environment for analysts and policymakers.

🎬 Related video

Source: VOA Farsi · 3 hours

👀 What to watch

Whether student protests resume or escalate if the in-person exam mandate is not fully revoked.
Further actions by authorities against women defying hijab laws.
Any international reactions or human rights reports concerning the intensified executions.

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