High school girls are the new face of protests in Iran: report

A large number of high school girls in Iran join the continuing protest against the nation's Islamic laws that deny freedom to women.

Enforcing these rules a couple of weeks previously resulted in the death of a 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in the custody of morality police.

The government has since been relentlessly crushing the protests as women defiantly dance in the streets, while burning their headscarves in bonfires.

Security forces attacked crowds with live ammunition, killing over 50 people already and arresting over 1,500, according to The Guardian.

Faced with chaos, President Ebrahim Raisi chose to be more aggressive than conciliatory.

On Tuesday, Raisi called for unity against the protests, The Guardian reported; his call could translate into more violence with security forces targeting protesters.

But protesting Iranians continue to grow in numbers despite the sufferings, bringing together people across ethnic and class divides.

Raisi was on message in the government line saying that protests were fanned up by foreign provocateurs.

However he reportedly acknowledged "Iranians were angry about the "shortcomings" of the Islamic Republic."

A hardline newspaper 'Jomhuri Eslami' questioned the government in its editorial saying no foreign enemies or domestic opposition can cause state of riots without the background discontent.

The death of the young Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini in the custody sparked protests, which spread to several cities, stirring up broader discontent among people against bad governing by the administration.

Protesters come out into the streets, and in their homes, schools and offices removing the pictures of the two supreme leaders: previously Ayatollah Khomeini and now Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Videos emerge from classrooms show girls protesting against the nation's rulers; one clipping showed a girl replacing an image of supreme leaders with the slogan of the protest.

A group of teenagers photographed themselves making obscene gestures towards the two men.

More videos have women walking and dancing in the streets without their hair covered; when they cannot come out in the streets because of police they organized indoor protests, escaping the crackdown.

A large number of students came out against mass arrests in Tehran, taking out a rally in the conservative city of Mashhad.

They reportedly said that many of their number had been taken into an infamous prison turning the place into a campus.

In the city of Karaj, west of the capital, school girls flooded the street without wearing hijab shouting: Women. Life. Freedom", showed a footage according to the Guardian.

Protests by the students are reminiscent of 1979 Islamic Revolution that brought the Islamic government to power; back then as now high school students played a key role, according to the report.