The system will send a thousand religious to occupy the halls of Tehran to counter Western influence and opposition among students
The announcement was handled by Deputy Director of Education Department of the Iranian capital, Mohamed Boniadi, who said "these members of the clergy are the officers of the ideological war against the West."
The regime wants to increase control over students from an early age not to deviate from official doctrine and to fight against Western influence . Another objective of this ideological battle is keep it from spreading opposition movement emerged in time to the June 2009 protests against electoral fraud that enabled a second term for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
It is in the ranks of youth where the protest movement recruited more followers. Thousands of youths took to the streets to protest the electoral theft.
The regime claimed the extent of the riots to a Western plot to weaken and that puts emphasis on combating the spread of foreign culture among young people.
A similar project was launched immediately after the 1979 Islamic Revolution. At that time, brigades "moral faculty" were sent to primary schools and secondary schools to indoctrinate students. Shortly after taking his first term in 2006, Ahmadinejad took this idea to deploy hundreds of teachers of religion in schools. But Boniadi now admitted that his department had failed in previous such attempts to "reform and renew the mind" of students and that it now had "to take advantage of this opportunity."
is not the only measure to control the minds and habits juveniles. In recent months the regime has expelled also colleges and universities at all disturbing elements -teachers with inappropriate or questionable political views, and trains members of pro-government forces for creating blogs that increase governmental influence over the Internet.
On a total population of 70 million, about 18 accessing the network, according to official figures.
In recent months the regime has proposed Islamize all: haircuts, clothing and the contents of school curricula and university . The hardline government of Ahmadinejad wants to doctrinal sources of the early revolutionaries.
The announcement that sent religious schools actually responds to a formal concerns: the loss of adhesion of huge youth population born after the revolution. This is the 70% of Iranian youth who mostly do not identify with the backward speech regime and are attracted by new technologies and content they make available to them. Although a large number of sites have been blocked by the government and many bloggers arrested, nothing can stop young people in their navigation of the network. Nor discourage slow connections, or always-on Internet filtering.
now be subject to an enhanced surveillance doctrinal and cultural. Weather tell if this campaign will be effective in its goal of tying the hands of young minds.
