If I were in Pezeshkian’s place, when Dr Fazeli’s microphone was cut off I would have given him my own microphone so that he could respond. If they cut off my microphone as well, I would have asked Engineer Beheshti to give Dr Fazeli his microphone. And if they silenced all three of us, we would have left the programme together.

If you cannot give a voice of protest to a dismissed university professor sitting beside you after his voice has been cut off, how do you intend to become the voice of all the university professors and students whose voices have been silenced?