Some Iranian students are asking the University of Windsor to consider changing the flag representing Iran in the university’s CAW Student Centre. The student centre is adorned with flags from numerous nations, according to CBC, including the internationally-recognized flag of the Islamic Republic of Iran. UWindsor student Akhavan Rezaee says that this should be replaced with the country’s former ‘lion and sun’ flag. “I feel like this is not the flag of Iran. This is just a representation of the regime,” Rezaee explained. Toronto Metropolitan University professor Shirin Khayambashi added that this alternative flag is not without its own controversies, as it represents the country’s monarchist movement. “The Iranian flag has always been a heavily political piece of garment,” she concluded.
