“News about abused students in general, and Afghan students in particular, only pop up in the media by accident because the monitoring agencies and the Education Ministry try to suppress these incidents,” Shirzad Abdollahi, an expert in Iranian educational affairs, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. 
“Kwa ujumla, habari kuhusu kuonewa kwa wanafunzi, na hususani wanafunzi raia wa Afghanistan, huwa zinaonekana kwa bahati sana kwenye vyombo vya habari kwa kuwa mamlaka za ufuatiliaji na Wizara ya Elimu imejaribu kufifisha matukio haya,” Shirzad Abdollahi, ambaye ni mtaalam wa masuala ya elimu nchini Iran aliiambia asasi ya Kimataifa ya Kutetea Haki za Binadamu ya nchini Iran.